University of Waterloo
                      Electronic Data Service Task Group
                  Minutes of the Meeting of August 10, 1994 


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

CC:      Bruce MacNeil
         Mike Ridley
         Boris Bruder
         Charles Woods

1.  Minutes of the Meeting of August 3, 1994
    The minutes of the meeting of August 3, 1994 were approved with changes.

2.  Business Arising
  
    4. CANSIM/EPAS
    Sue Moskal stated that the CANSIM data will be purchased with money 
    from her Government Publication fund.  She also stated that Bill Graham
    has been in contact with Chris Leowski at EPAS to inform him to establish
    official contact for us.  Chris Leowski has been on LIBRARY since 
    August 8, 1994, so some activity has taken place.  Chuck has not been
    notified of the missing utilities.

    Sue Moskal also reported that Professor Walker of the History Department
    would like to be able to use CANSIM data for historical research on 
    immigration.  She feels this is the typical type of request we will be
    receiving.

    5. Census Data
    Albert Kemp reported that the Census data on Watserv2 has now been 
    transferred to LIBRARY and has been removed from Watserv2.  The Census
    data on EISLIB2 has also been transferred to LIBRARY, but has not been
    deleted from EISLIB2.

    Albert Kemp met today (August 10) with Carol Vogt and Jan Willwerth
    to discuss transferring the Census data Jan has been storing.  According
    to Jan, all the data has been stored on 2 accounts, 1 on DCS1 and 1 on
    WATARTS.  She is still trying to organize the data on WATARTS and 
    will let Albert know when it is ready to transfer.  She gave him access
    to her account on DCS1 and said he could begin transferring the Census
    data.  She also made him aware that the DSC1 account contains Cycle 7 of
    the GSS data.  Albert has successfully transferred Cycle 7 of the GSS 
    data but was unable to locate any Census data.  He has since notified Jan
    by E-mail that he could not locate the Census data.  He is waiting 
    for her to reply.

    Albert Kemp also confirmed that everything in Census on LIBRARY is being
    backed up.

    6.  GSS Data
    Albert contacted John Hirdes regarding transferring the GSS data from
    Healthy to LIBRARY.  John has agreed to help with the transfer, however
    he is away until September 1, 1994.  If we require the data before 
    September 1, 1994, Jan Willwerth will request tapes be mounted and 
    cycles restored on DCS1.  We can then FTP them to LIBRARY. Cycles 1-6
    are on tape, cycle 7 is on DCS1 and cycle 8 has not yet been released.
    The data could be on LIBRARY as early as the end of this week.

    Shabirin Rahman has contacted John Hirdes and asked that he please
    look at how the gopher for GSS has been set up.

    10.  Materials in 222 (Data Resources Centre Holdings)
    Maureen Kama is working her way through the material in Room 222.
    She is spending approximately 3-4 hours per day on this task.
 
    Bill Oldfield reported that eventually we will ask that a link be made
    from the Data Rsource Centre area in UWINFO to UW-EDS.

3.  Additional Agenda
    EDS Gopher

4.  UW-EDS Service Configuration
    Sue Moskal distributed copies of the Electronic Data Service Public 
    Service Component description for review and discussion.  She will make
    the appropriate changes and it will be distributed to members of P & PG.

5.  UW Electronic Library
    Access to the UW Electronic Library will be provided through both the
    Library area and Data Resource Centre area of UWINFO.

6.  EDS Gopher
    The target date for a public announcement of UW-EDS has been 
    postponed until later this fall.

    Bill Oldfield has asked members to retrieve the codebooks, SPSS, SAS
    definition files from Toronto (EPAS Gopher) and to complete the 
    building of the EDS gopher space.



Next meeting: August 17, 1994, 1:30 pm. LIB 428