University of Waterloo
                     Electronic Data Service Task Group
                    Minutes for Meeting of August 3, 1994

Present:  Albert Kemp (Secretary)	Absent:  Doug Morton
          Sue Moskal				 Richard Pinnell
          Bill Oldfield (Chair)			 Debbie Tytko
          Shabiran Rahman
          Carol Vogt

CC:       Bruce MacNeil
          Mike Ridley
          Boris Bruder
          Charles Woods

1.  Minutes of Previous Meeting -
    Approved as issued.

2.  Business Arising - 
    No additional business.

3.  Additional Agenda - 
    * Material in room 222
    * Data liberation

4.  CANSIM/EPAS - 
    Sue Moskal is expecting a copy of the Statscan contract for the purchase
    of CANSIM data.  The cost of this data is $995.  Meanwhile, Sue will
    check with the Acquisition dept. to confirm which fund the order must be
    initiated from.  Mike Ridley will be asked to check for reconciliation
    under any previous agreements.

5.  Census Data - 
    A meeting has been scheduled for next Wed. at 10:00 am, between Carol,
    Jan, and Albert, to discuss the transfer of other existing census data
    on campus to Library.  Bill Oldfield asked Albert to move the data on
    Watserv2 to Library.  According to Laine Ruus' memo dated 5/31/94, it
    appears that UWEDS is missing a considerable amount of census data.
    Once an inventory of all existing data on campus has been completed,
    UWEDS can approach Laine for the missing data.

    Bill Oldfield stressed the importance of backing up the data, once it
    has been consolidated on Library.  Charles woods will be contacted
    to make arrangements for the periodic backup of this data.  Bill asked
    Albert to consult with Charles about the backup routines on Library.

6.  GSS Data - 
    Albert Kemp is awaiting contact from Terry Stewart in BMH, regarding the
    GSS datasets on Healthy.  Meanwhile, Carol Vogt will see if she can
    confirm space requirements for the storage of this data on Library
    (if she can locate it on Healthy).

    Apparently, all 8 cycles of GSS data released to date are stored on
    Healthy.  Shabiran Rahman will be checking with faculty member John 
    Hirdes, regarding the proper structuring of access to this data via 
    Gopher.

7.  EDS Gopher - 
    Neil Patterson of DCS will advise Carol Vogt on how to specify input/
    output statements in SPSS and SAS stub files.  Then Erin Harvey of
    Stats Consulting will review the modified stub files for public use. 

    Shabiran Rahman reported that she has setup the necessary links to
    the GSS codebooks in Gopher.

    Bill Oldfield stated that the privileged Gopher server for UW campus
    computers will filter access to census data, Uncover, etc.  A link to 
    the privileged Gopher will be inserted in UWinfo.

8.  UWEDS Service Configuration - 
    Sue Moskal distributed copies of the current service configuration.
    She will present and updated version, defining the UWEDS, to PPG for 
    their review.

9.  UW Electronic Library - 
    Bill Oldfield will examine the "about UWEDS" documents in Gopher as
    a possible basis for ideas on setting up a UWEDS homepage for WWW.

10. Materials in 222 - 
    Maureen Kama is going through the materials in room 222 to match up
    Geac catalogue records with census codebooks.  Carol Vogt will check
    for possible existing DRC resources in UWinfo.

11. Data Liberation - 
    The March 1994 draft of the initiative was discussed, with a focus
    on how it would impact the UWEDS.

Next Meeting: Aug. 10, 1994, 1:30 pm, LIB 428