University of Waterloo
                    Electronic Data Service Task Group
                      Minutes of Meeting May 11, 1994


Present:  Albert Kemp
          Sue Moskal
          Doug Morton (Secretary)
          Bill Oldfield (Chair)
          Richard Pinnell
          Shabiran Rahman
          Debbie Tytko
          Carol Vogt
CC:       Bruce MacNeil
          Boris Bruder
          Mike Ridley

1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting
     The date should read April 27, 1994

2.   Business Arising
     To be covered below.

3.   Codebook Access
     Albert Kemp reports that the investigation of conversion of
     MARC records to SGML is in progress

4.   CANSIM/EPAS
     We have received a message from Chris Leowski at EPAS
     outlining the next steps he will take in setting up the
     software on the Library computer.  Carol Vogt indicated
     there is an Economics class that would like to be using this
     facility by July.

5.   Census and GSS data
     The official licence agreement for the 1991 Census has been
     distributed; it is similar to the preliminary versions
     already seen.
     5.1  Inventory & 5.2     Description      Doug Morton
     distributed a draft of descriptions of files with lists of
     filenames with notes about what is understood to be at UW.
     5.3  Acquisition    The committee recommended that Albert
     Kemp and Debbie Tytko take over the acquisition process as
     soon as possible.
     5.4  Census Geographic Data    The Geographic Area files -
     Street Network files on CD-ROM have arrived.

6.   User Interface
     There was considerable discussion about the interface and
     how users might perceive the data, "access" the data, and
     use the data and how this can be related to either a Gopher
     or Web environment.  Shabiran Rahman will invite an
     experienced user to the next meeting.

7.   Data Storage
     14 Gigabytes of disk drives have been ordered for the
     Library computer for storage of data such as the Census and
     GSS.


8.   Next meeting