University of Waterloo
                    Electronic Data Service Task Group
                      Minutes of Meeting June 8, 1994


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

1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting
     none

2.   Business Arising
     Erin Harvie has requested and has been sent sample copies of
     the SAS and SPSS definition files.

3.   Additional Agenda
     Sue Moskal - Public service component
     Bill Oldfield - ICPSR

4.   CANSIM/EPAS
     The installation has been slowed by a lack of disc space (We
     were labouring under the misperception that we had more than
     we really do!).

     Also, the sample password has been closed off, until the
     system is up and running here our users are back to the
     print information.

5.   Census and GSS data
     The inventory of what Census data we have is progressing
     with the help of the list Albert brought of what has been
     sent by Laine.

     Access to GSS data will be similar to that provided for the
     Census.

6.   Data Acquisition
     Albert Kemp appears to have the FTP process for Census data
     under control; he will be asked to add a section to the
     program to e-mail Sita Vanderveen (MAD) and Doug Morton with
     file names each time files arrive.
     
7.   Access to DRC data
     Sue Moskal reports that the codebooks in LIB 222 have been
     sorted out. She and Shabiran Rahman will make estimates for
     furniture requirements.

8.   Interface Training
     Carol Vogt has now trained / updated several of the task
     group members on creating and maintaining gopher pages and
     menus.

9.   Public Service Component
     Sue Moskal distributed  a discussion paper concerning the
     public service component of the Electronic Data Service. 
     Task Group members agreed to review the paper for more in-
     depth discussion at the next meeting.

10.  ICPSR
     Bill Oldfield brought forward a letter from Peter
     Woolstencroft and Bill Moul (current and next chair,
     respectively, of Political Science) urging the Library to
     rejoin ICPSR.  Doug Morton will reply and forward the letter
     to Murray Shepherd. (UW is currently working with a group
     that is working towards creating a Canadian ICPSR
     consortium.)

Next Meeting
     Wed Jun 15, 13:30 pm, LIB 428