University of Waterloo
                          Electronic Data Service Task Group
                      Minutes of the Meeting of August 17, 1994


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

CC:      Bruce MacNeil
         Mike Ridley
         Boris Bruder
         Charles Woods


1.  Minutes of the Meeting of August 10, 1994

    The minutes of the meeting of August 10, 1994 were approved as 
    distributed.

2.  Business Arising
    
    There was no business arising.

3.  Additional Agenda

    Room 222
    Secretarial duties

4.  CANSIM/EPAS

    Bill Oldfield has been in touch with Chris Leowski at EPAS. Chris
    told Bill that the contract for the EPAS software was being sent.
    He also told Bill that they are ready to begin FTPing CANSIM data to 
    us, possibly as early as this evening.  Chris said that remote updating
    of the database can be tricky and that it would be advisable to have
    someone here run the update program once the data has been FTPed.
    Bill stated that once the data is here and we are ready to deliver 
    the service, we will need a secure telnet with access only from a
    University of Waterloo account.


    Sue Moskal reported that she has received the contract from Statistics
    Canada for the CANSIM data and that it has been passed to David Emery
    to authorize.  As soon as he has signed it, it shall be returned.

5.  Census

    Albert Kemp replied that he had not received a reply to his E-mail to
    Jan Willwerth regarding the missing Census data.

    Sue Moskal reported that she is receiving requests for 1986 Census data.
    For the time being, the requestor is being instructed to see Jan 
    Willwerth.  Bill Oldfield reported that eventually, we will take 
    over responsibility for the 1986 Census tape data and that our gopher 
    should contain the 1986 codebook, SAS files.

6.  GSS

    Albert Kemp reported that he is still waiting for Jan Willwerth to
    mount GSS Cycles 1-6 so that they can be transferred.

7.  UW-EDS

    Sue Moskal made changes to the Electronic Data Service Public Service
    Component as discussed in the meeting of August 10, 1994.  The members
    reviewed the changes and Sue will now forward the document to members
    of P & PG.

8.  Room 222
 
    We are presently storing codebooks etc. in Room 222.  A formal rquest 
    was made to the Library Planning Committee for half of the space in
    Room 222 to house the Electronic Data Service Consultation Office, 
    however, our request has not been approved by the Committee.

9.  Secretarial Duties

    It was agreed that the secretarial duties for this committee would be
    shared by each member.  Each person will be responsible for taking
    minutes for one month at at time.  Since Debbie Tytko has been taking
    the minutes this month, the responsibility will be passed onto the
    next person alphabetically for the month of September and so on.
    It was agreed that as chair, Bill Oldfield would be exempt.
    The duties will proceed as follows:
            September: Carol Vogt
            October: Albert Kemp
            November: Doug Morton
            December: Sue Moskal
            January: Richard Pinell
            February: Shabiran Rahman


  
Next meeting is scheduled for August 25, 1994, 1:30 pm. LIB 428