University of Waterloo

                  Electronic Data Service Committee

              Minutes of the Meeting of November 2, 1994

Present:  Doug Morton (chair); Richard Pinnell (secretary), Albert Kemp, 
Susan Moskal, Bill Oldfield, Carol Vogt

cc:  Bruce MacNeil, Mike Ridley, Boris Bruder, Charles Woods

1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting - October 26, 1994
    item 1, change "Neal Patterson" to "Neil Patterson"
    item 6, change "which as Web to SAS" to "which is a Web to SAS"

2. Business Arising
    item 5: Doug has spoken to Boris about EDS orders; they will be 
handled by one person in MAD, whether the items are monographic or 
serial in nature.  Boris suggested that in order to identify EDS orders we 
could use the $b subfield in the title field since it is searchable.  However
Debbie uses the term "datasets" in the $b; one suggestion was to begin 
using the term "datasets - EDS."    

  item 6: Bill has a copy of the Web to Z39.50 program source code and 
is trying to compile it on the DEC alpha.

  item 7: Susan reported that the key to room 222 has been stepped up 
from the general Reference Office key for security reasons; Susan, 
Shabiran, and Doug will be the only ones to have this key.  Susan will 
talk to Eric Boyd to ensure that both doors to room 222 are secure.

         Albert Kemp reported that he is attempting to find a source for 
the computer equipment we will need for EDS.  Ron Press recently 
purchased equipment with "optimum" components from a local firm for 
approximately $7,000.  Albert will get quotes from Ed Lam,  Group 4
CPS and the UW Computer Store.  Other possibilities include the Dell computer
and the Ambra Pentium.

3. Additional Agenda
    7. Violence Against Women
    8. U. of Guelph Library

4. CANSIM/EPAS
    Doug reported that he will give a training session to task group 
members next week to demo the EPAS software. He mentioned that the browse 
function gives a warning. Bill will ask Andrea Chappell what priority she
will give to providing secure telnet access.  He reported that the CANSIM
manual requires modification and that Chris Leowski has given us permission
to make these changes.  Doug will make changes to the manual as required. 

5. Census and GSS data
Albert reported that he has completed an inventory of the census files 
that the Library has not yet received; he has emailed this inventory to 
Laine Ruus but has not yet had a response.
Albert has the name of Laine's secretary.
He has attempted to obtain a copy of the missing GSS code book from the
members of the consortium; he believes he can obtain a copy from the
University of Guelph.  It was reported that the GSS section 
of the gopher is completed.  The GSS data has been uncompressed and we 
can now begin to provide the links to it.

6. Progress Report
Doug distributed a draft copy of an EDS progress report.  It was 
suggested that we use the term dataset to refer to each electronic 
resource.  The report should make it clear that the service will not be 
available until January.  However, it might be possible to make the GSS 
data available before then.  Four of the 8 series are ready; all that is 
required is to NFS mount this data and to modify the stub files to 
include the complete path to the data.  Albert will provide the path 
information to Carol.

7. Violence Against Women
Albert reported that the main datafile (6 MB) is available for ftp from 
EPAS.  He will get the data and email Debbie when this has been done, so 
that she can update her records.

8. University of Guelph Library
Bill has been in touch with Alan Gale, Sue Waterman-McLean and others at the 
University of Guelph Library to discuss areas of cooperation, for example, a 
cooperative approach to the acquisition of datasets.  Guelph is just 
beginning to consider setting up a data library.  He reported that the 
Economics Department at that university has CANSIM going.