UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
                         ELECTRONIC DATA SERVICE TASK GROUP
                     MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF AUGUST 24, 1994


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

CC:       Bruce MacNeil
          Mike Ridley
          Boris Bruder
          Charles Woods


1.  Minutes of the meeting of August 17, 1994

    The minutes of the meeting of August 17, 1994 were approved with minor
    corrections.

2.  Business Arising

    4.  CANSIM
    Debbie Tytko reported that the CANSIM contract has been signed and 
    returned to Statistics Canada.

3.  Additional Agenda

    Room 222
    Cataloguing of Data Resource Centre Codebooks

4.  CANSIM

    Bill Oldfield reported that most of the CANSIM data has been FTPed but
    that it is not yet running.  Doug Morton will be contacting Chris Leowski
    to ask him a few questions and to get an overall update on the status.
    Bill said that now that the data has been FTPed, we will have to put 
    special effort into building our files for CANSIM.  He will be 
    exploring the connecting operations ie: the top level UW-EDS service will
    be available to the World.  Specific services ie: CANSIM, GSS will be 
    located on Library on a restricted gopher.

    Albert Kemp will begin to contruct a WEB page for UW-EDS.

5.  CENSUS

    Albert Kemp reported that status of the tranfer of Census data from
    Jan Willwerth to Library is still the same as last week.  He sent Jan an
    E-mail again today regarding the missing data.

    Albert Kemp also reported that more data is now available for FTP from
    Toronto.  He is presently modifying his program and once the changes are
    made, the new data will be transferred.

6.  GSS

    Albert Kemp reported that we now have GSS Cycles 1 - 5, 7, but are 
    missing Cycle 6.  Jan Willwerth must mount Cycle 6 so that it can be 
    FTPed to Library.  Once she has mounted this Cycle, the transfer will
    be done.

    Once Shabiran Rahman returns from holidays, Albert will be working with
    her to FTP the GSS codebooks.  

    Bill Oldfield reported that he does not know how to go about NFS 
    mounting.  Once all the GSS data is available for use, he will contact
    Doug Payne and explore how to NFS mount data.

7.  UW-EDS Service Configuration

    Sue Moskal has forwarded the revised Electronic Data Service Public
    Service Component to members of P&PG.

8.  Room 222

    Bill Olfield reported that a portion of Room 222 has been allocated to
    house the Electronic Data Service Consultation Office.  He will provide
    Mike Ridley with the requirements necessary for this office ie; hardware.
    

9.  Cataloguing Data Resource Centre Codebooks

    Betty Graf will be invited to a future meeting to discuss cataloguing
    the codebooks from the Data Resource Centre.  There are questions as to
    AACRII or CODOC cataloguing of these records.  Betty reported to Bill 
    that there are full records available for these codebooks.


Next meeting is scheduled for August 31, 1994, 1:30 pm LIB 428