University of Waterloo

                   Electronic Data Service Task Group

               Minutes of the Meeting of November 30, 1994

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

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

1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting - November 16, 1994
    item 4, change "xabyte" to "exabyte"

2. Business Arising
   item 7 (from November 9): it was agreed that Shabiran need not add 
the sentence about consortia to the About EDS section on the gopher

   item 2.2.7  Albert reported that PPG has approved the purchase of 
computer equipment for EDS

   item 7  Doug reported that room 222 will be keyed at the same level as 
the rest of the reference area

   item 9  Linda Howe has asked Carol for information about EDS for an 
article in the Gazette.  Doug spoke with Linda earlier this week and gave 
her some information.  He has also prepared a release about EDS that will 
appear in For Your Information early in the new year.  

   item 11  Betty Graf has distributed to EDS members a sample of 
bibliographic records for datafiles that are held by the Library.  Bill 
suggested that members of EDS review these records for discussion at the 
next meeting

3. Additional Agenda
    None

4. CANSIM/EPAS
Doug reported that he met recently with Andrea Chappell to discuss the 
mail-back routine.  She will prepare a script that will provide for 
anonymous login, running CANSIM, and mailing back results.  Hopefully 
patrons will create a minimum number of files for mailing back or else 
they will receive a great many mail messages.  Doug also reported that 
the manuals for gopher and the Web are not yet updated.  He has started a 
crib sheet to walk patrons through a simple start; he will consider 
putting this information on the gopher.

5. Census
Albert reported there has been no change since the last meeting.  The 17 
tapes are still with Laine Ruus.  Albert will encourage her to send these 
back to Carol a few at a time rather than sending them back in one 
batch.  Albert also mentioned that he was recently notified of additional 
files to be ftp-ed, and this has now been done; the problems with 
Toronto's ftp server have now been resolved. Susan mentioned that she
hasn't yet created the About pages.  Bill reported that Charles Woods is 
looking into a logical structure for the data on library before this data 
is NFS mounted.  There was discussion about whether we should have one 
top-level directory (e.g., EDS) or several top-level directories 
corresponding to the various datasets (e.g., 91census)

6. GSS
Shabiran indicated that one of the GSS codebooks is still missing; Albert 
is looking into this.  She also indicated that she intends to complete 
the About pages by tomorrow.  Doug will look into the DocuTech service as 
a way to obtain hardcopies of the manuals and codebooks for which we do 
not already have paper copies.  Albert reported that the GSS files are 
most likely not in their final location on library.  Until this is done 
it is not possible to edit the stub files to include the data definition 
information,

7. Violence Against Women Study
Albert indicated that the VAW files are probably not in the right 
location on library; he put them where space was available.  As is the 
case with the GSS data, we must wait until Charles Woods has determined a 
logical structure before EDS members can begin to move datafiles into the 
appropriate directories.

8. Grand Opening
After much discussion about how much work remains to be done, it was 
decided to postpone the grand opening until February 1.