University of Waterloo
                    Electronic Data Service Task Group
                     Minutes of Meeting June 15, 1994


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

1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting
     Richard Pinnell was absent

2.   Business Arising
     covered below

3.   Additional Agenda
     Richard Pinnell:  update on Mapinfo.

4.   CANSIM/EPAS
     The disc drives and interface boards may be arriving soon. 
     If further delays occur, Carol Vogt reported that Doug Payne
     may be able to find sufficient disc space to NFS store the
     CANSIM data (which the programme on Library could access)
     until our drives came in.

5.   Census and GSS data
     Work on the inventory continues.

     Richard Pinnell noted that the Digital Cartographic Files
     from Statistics Canada are among the datasets not
     distributed as part of the consortium purchase of the 1991
     Census.

6.   Access to existing DRC data
     Charles Woods is preparing a list of codebooks (from the
     catalogue) for Betty Graf to work on updating (mostly
     location changes).  Two more boxes of material remain to be
     shipped from DCS to LIB 222; this will be done.

     Sue Moskal has distributed a preliminary list of furniture
     requirements to the group for review.
     
7.   Interface training
     Now that training has been completed the task is to divide
     up the task of filling in the EDS gopherspace.

     People creating pages should note the existing format with
     "last updated: date" and "University of Waterloo Library" at
     the top of the page.

8.   Mapinfo
     Richard Pinnell has Mapinfo ver. 2.1 installed on his
     workstation as well as the Street network Files.  Version 3
     is to be shipped soon.  There was some discussion about
     where the programme should be accessible from - throughout
     the Library or just UMD.  More work will need to be done to
     see how it will be used.  Richard will demonstrate the
     package to the group in the near future.

Next Meeting:
     Wednesday, June 22, 1994; 1:30 p.m.; LIB 428

     Please be prepared to discuss the layout of the EDS gopher and which 
portions you are willing to look after.