University of Waterloo
                     Electronic Data Service Task Group
                   Minutes for Meeting of January 11, 1995

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

CC:       Bruce MacNeil
          Mike Ridley
          Boris Bruder
          Charles Woods
	  Betty Graf

1.  Minutes of Previous Meeting - Approved.

2.  Business Arising - 
    * WebSIM (Web to CANSIM interface) was again demonstrated.  Basically
      ready for public use; Lynx support and mailing option have yet to
      be incorporated.  R. Pinnell will handle announcements to uw.library
      and uw.general newsgroups.  D. Morton will announce to staff and 
      inform Chris Redmond (Gazette).

3.  Additional Agenda - 
    7. Other data resources
    8. Cataloguing questions from B. Graf
    9. ICPSR

4.  CANSIM/EPAS - 
    Prior to the Christmas holiday, B. Oldfield wrote UNIX scripts to test
    secure telnet access to CANSIM.  Andrea Chappell, of DCS, will be
    contacted via email.  The possibility of offering CANSIM access from
    public workstations must also be explored.  Patrons may require the
    ability to download search data to floppies.  Charles Woods is working 
    on a schedule for regular weekly updates to the CANSIM database.

5.  Census/GSS - 
    S. Moskal and A. Kemp are continuing to transfer various record layout
    and codebook files from U of T's gopher.  They hope to have some of
    this data available via the Library gopher by next week.

    C. Vogt reports that anyone on a remote system, who wishes to access
    the census data on Library, must also NFS mount the data on their
    system.  Such a request should be handled by the system administrator.
    It is not enough that the data is NFS mounted on Library.  This fact
    will be noted in the Library gopher for all users.

6.  User Interface - 
    To be announced....

7.  Other Data Resources - 
    S. Moskal presented information from the Dept. of Natural Resources
    on an electronic database of petrolium related information.  This data 
    is available only by fax at this time.

8.  Cataloguing Questions - 
    Betty Graf, head of Cataloguing, asked if we wanted to change all the
    location codes for our materials.  Presently, "DRC" is being used.
    However, most location codes on the system will be changed in April,
    1995, which would be a good time to change "DRC" if we so choose.
    UW-EDS decided that we would keep "DRC" until April, and then change
    the location code for our materials to "POREDS".
  
    Betty also wanted to know what wording should appear on WATCAT, for
    items which are stored on magnetic tape.  UW-EDS agreed on "Contact
    UW-EDS in the Dana Porter Library for tape loading information".

9.  ICPSR - 
    S. Moskal reports that the consortium membership is on hold for now.


Next Meeting: Jan. 18, 1995, 1:30 pm, LIB 428