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MINUTES OF THE MEETING, JUNE 5, 2002

Present: Jack Cooper Richard Pinnell; Judy McTaggart (Recorder); Shabiran Rahman; Susan Moskal (Chair)

  1. Minutes of the meeting, April 10, 2002: Accepted.

  2. Business Arising:

Item 2, Business Arising: The idea for a TDR authentication process is not going ahead at this time.

Item 5, Geosuite: The Geosuite software has been mounted on the two machines in the EDS office and both Susan and Shabiran have examined it.

Jack Cooper noted he has set up software for conducting web surveys and he would like some trial projects. Shabiran suggested we could use if for virtual reference surveys.

  1. Additional Agenda:

There was no additional agenda.

  1. CAPDU Conference (Susan):

Susan reported on the presentations she attended at the CAPDU conference. Sessions included: CANSIM II, Labor Statistics, and the 2001 Census.

She noted several problems have been identified with CANSIM II and these were not addressed at the session. Action: Susan will contact Jim Brox and ask him to submit a message to the presenter detailing the problems he encountered when using the data. EDS will send a similar message.

The handouts from the various sessions will be kept with the existing guides in the EDS office. Action: Judy will photocopy and place in appropriate binders. Susan will forward a copy of the Health Surveys handout to Yulerette Gordon.

  1. ACMLA Conference (Richard):

Richard gave an overview of the sessions he attended at the Association of Canadian Map Libraries & Archives (ACMLA) conference. The sessions included: “How to Manage Large Datasets” and “Geographical Information Online”.

Richard also reported TDR, the Library and the Map & Design Unit will be mounting a project this summer and the metadata records will be mounted on the TDR server. Richard will be doing a write-up for the Daily Bulletin and he will ensure EDS sees it.

Susan congratulated Richard on the honorary award he received from the association.

  1. Advisory Committee Minutes (Draft):

The group examined the draft minutes of the Advisory Committee meeting for corrections. Action: Judy will make revisions and re-issue the final copy.

Susan noted the issue of mounting data on the Political Science server (offer made by John Wilson) needs to be addressed and a decision made. The group decided this will be looked at when the web pages are examined.

  1. TDR-OMG (Richard):

Richard reported TDR-OMG has not met recently. The last meeting was held in March. The group is not planning to raise the issue of TDR login (authentication) again. He also noted the Steering Committee will meet on June 13.

  1. Future Agenda Items:

The EDS web page and EDS terms of reference will be placed as future agenda items.

Next Meeting: September 11, 2002

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Judy McTaggart

August 3, 2005