University of Waterloo
 
                        Electronic Data Service Task Group
 
                 Minutes of the Meeting of December 14, 1994
 
Present Doug Morton (chair), Richard Pinnell, Albert Kemp,
        Susan Moskal, Bill Oldfield, Shabiran Rahman, Debbie Tytko, Carol 
Vogt
        (secretary), Betty Graf (visitor)
 
cc:  Bruce MacNeil, Mike Ridley, Boris Bruder, Charles Woods
 
1. Minutes of Previous Meeting:
   In item 2 Bruce MacNeil was spelled incorrectly as Mcneil.
 
2. Business Arising
   7d: Where to put EDS Gopher. The UWinfo Operations Committee should be
contacted to put it on second level, Facilities and Services. Chris
Redmond should be contacted to have the UWinfo Web home page point to it.
 
3. Additional Agenda Items
   none
 
4. CANSIM/EPAS
   Andrea will not be able to get the secure telnet working before
Christmas. Bill and Charles will work on this.
 
5. Census
   Tapes are being copied, now over half done. It was ascertained
subsequent to the meeting that PCs mounting the data will need a userid
but no password. This has been brought to Charles attention
 
a) GSS
   Albert has a line on the missing codebook
 
6. Cataloguing:
   Betty Graf attended the meeting to discuss how data files and codebooks
should be catalogued. She had found copies of records pertaining to data
we have, and had previously distributed this. She needed to know
should it be catalogued as data files or tape? It was decided that if
it was on tape it would be catalogued that way, and then changed
if the data moved. Albert will supply Betty with a list of all 1991
census files to begin cataloguing them. An LC class number will be put
on all records. The location will be given as POREDS.
 
7. ICPSR
   It appears we have joined the Canadian ICPSR consortium. It is
not known who will pay for this, or how much it costs. A catalogue and
many code books arrived. ADcquisition of data will be arranged through
Laine who is our hub representative. Sue will contact Laine for more
information.