ELECTRONIC DATA SERVICE

MINUTES OF THE MEETING, APRIL 12, 2000

Present: Cooper, Jack Pinnell, Richard (Facilitator) McTaggart, Judy (Recorder) Rahman, Shabiran Moskal, Susan

1. Minutes of Previous Meeting, March 29, 2000:

Accepted.

2. Business Arising:

There was no new business arising.

3. Agenda For EDS Advisory Group Meeting, April 13, 2000:

The agenda for the EDS Advisory Group meeting will be the only agenda item for today's meeting. The working agenda (see minutes of meeting, March 29, 2000) was discussed. The group decided the current sequence of agenda topics may not leave sufficient time for feedback and discussion with faculty. The agenda topics were reorganized to allow for this. The final working agenda was set as follows:

1. Minutes of the previous meeting (November 28, 2997)

2. Business Arising not on today's agenda

3. TDR Update - governance, etc. (Mark) - 15 minutes

4. Workshops and Training (Jack) - 10 minutes (SAW, what other people would find useful)

5. Communication and Publicity (Shabiran) - 15 minutes (meeting needs, improvements, frequency, length, format) (e-mail, listserv, newsgroup, website)

6. Data Needs (Richard) - 5 minutes

7. Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at UW and workshop (Shabiran) - 5 minutes

8. DRC Tapes (Jack) - 15 minutes

9. CFI Proposals for Data and GIS (Mark) - 10 minutes

10. ICPSR Summer Program (Sue) - 5 minutes

11. DLI Update (Sue) - 5 minutes (no longer a pilot project, firm ongoing funding)

Susan will send the final agenda to all members of the EDS Advisory Group.

 

Next meeting: Wednesday, April 26, 2000: Porter 224A; 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.