University of Waterloo
                    Electronic Data Service Task Group
                     Minutes of Meeting July 20, 1994


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

1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting
     6.   rephrasing - Members will work on assigned sections of
     the gopher.

2.   Business Arising
     none

3.   Additional Agenda
     8.  Material in LIB 222

4.   CANSIM/EPAS
     Doug Morton has been in contact with Chris Leowski of EPAS,
     developments are:
     We have to order CANSIM separately, not through EPAS, Doug
     will get details and let Sue Moskal know.
     We have a sample contract for review.
     EPAS should be getting in touch with Charles Woods about
     Unix utilities.

5.   Census and GSS data
     Carol Vogt will get together with Albert Kemp and Jan
     Willwerth to sort out transfer of the Census data.

6.   EDS Gopher
     Doug Morton has filled out some of the Census areas on the
     Gopher.

     Carol Vogt spoke to Neil Patterson about the stub
     (definition) files; he suggested there be several comments
     at the top with respect to changes needed to run them on
     different platforms around campus.

7.   EDS Service
     Sue Moskal distributed a revised edition of service
     document.  

8.   Material in LIB 222
     to be shelf read by Maureen Kama & Loella Eby. 
     preference is to keep all - it is premature to make
     decisions on what to discard, some codebooks very awkward to
     replicate
     need decision on what level to code databases and codebooks

Next Meeting:
     Wednesday, July 27, 1994; 1:30 p.m.; LIB 428