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WORKSHOP 2 - SCAR COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA
OUTCOMES AND ACTION ITEMS
Item: CGA on the web
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No resources in Italy to develop map-based search facility |
Action - GGI |
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Carry out three-monthly up-dates of website |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Date of revision on title page to read Date of latest information, February 1999, to distinguish this date from the date the website is amended |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Create links to national names site under New proposals and New approvals after suggestion approved by GGI |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Request appropriate national website addresses from GGI members for these links |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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GGI members to check e-mail addresses given on Web in Annex C and advise Chiara Ramorino |
Action - GGI / Chiara Ramorino |
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Report to GGI in July 1999 on feasibility of setting up an ftp site for access to SCOUT software |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
Item: CGA Addendum to Edition 1
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Hard copy format agreed: Preface (very short), Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 as one slim volume in a card cover |
Action - NIL |
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Investigate funding for photograph on card cover |
Action - Roberto Cervellati |
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Reference numbers that are now obsolete will not be re-used in future |
Action - NIL |
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Annotate empty reference numbers in Volume 2 if automation feasible |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Co-ordinates to be submitted to CGA as degrees and minutes or degrees, minutes and seconds (seconds to only one decimal point). Decimal degrees to be converted by approving country to CGA format |
Action - GGI |
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Consider Addendum being published separately from revised CGA on website |
Action - GGI |
Item: CGA Edition 2
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Format for Volume 2 agreed and guidelines to be prepared |
Action - Roberto Cervellati / Chiara Ramorino |
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Examples to accompany guidelines to be prepared |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Letter requesting new information to be drafted and sent to GGI members and National SCAR delegates by 31 May 1999 |
Action - Roberto Cervellati |
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Minutes of Workshop to be prepared by 26 March 1999 |
Action - Janet Thomson |
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Additional information to Edition 2 to be returned to Italy by 31 January 2000 |
Action - GGI |
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Assemble new material (letters A to F) for presentation of draft volume at Tokyo 2000 |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |
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Final publication on web of Edition 2 (includes descriptions of every feature by all countries -1500-2000 page document) in 2002 |
Action - NIL at this stage |
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Possible synthesis of descriptive material to reduce size of CGA (Edition 3) to allow hard copy publication in (?)2006 |
Action - NIL at this stage |
Item: Continuation of resource commitment to CGA
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Investigate resources available for continuing effort by Italy, for discussion at Tokyo |
Action - Roberto Cervellati |
Item: Publications
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Agreed that publication of Edition 1 by Elsevier is not commercially viable |
Action - For further discussion at GGI meeting in Heppeheim, July 1999 |
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Consideration of Edition 1.1 (with Addendum) as a hard copy publication to be deferred to Heppenheim meeting in July |
Action - GGI |
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Edition 2 too large for a hard copy publication; would not be ready before 2002 |
Action - NIL at this stage |
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Suggested addition of CGA website address to ATCM flyer |
Action - Glenn Johnstone |
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Major amendments to Polar Record paper to be mailed to Drew Clarke immediately |
Action - Chiara Ramorino / Janet Thomson |
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New Table 2 and possibly Table 4 for paper to be mailed electronically to Drew Clarke |
Action - Chiara Ramorino |