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Financial support for ISPRS - IRS 
expenses for office expenditures, hardware and software, and for a director. 
All four Analysts are working in the ISPRS -IRS Office to be established in 
the supporting country. 
5 Outlook 
Financing and operation of the ISPRS -IRS Database as a joint venture of 
European countries did not materialize so far. Since establishing the ISPRS - 
IRS concept 1984, four years have passed. An enormous advancement has been 
achieved particularly in the online scenery during this time span. Databases 
grew bigger; they may be more powerful now, yet they may as well submerge users. 
After all, we need to know where we presently are. Therefore, it is feasible to 
start after the ISPRS Congress Kyoto July 1988 an inquiry on the capabilities, 
efficiency, reliability and costs of available bibliographic and factual infor- 
mation. 
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