University of Waterloo
                     Electronic Data Service Task Group
                   Minutes for Meeting of January 18, 1995

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

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

1.  Minutes of Previous Meeting - 
    * Gazette was misspelled "Gazzette".
    * Typo in section 5, line 2 "gohper".

2.  Business Arising - 
    * The decision was made not to move access to UW-EDS in the Library
      gopher up to the "facilities & services" directory at this time.

3.  Additional Agenda - 
    7. Conference Board of Canada

4.  CANSIM/EPAS - 
    A. Kemp demonstrated latest developments with WebSIM (Web to CANSIM).
    The interface now supports Lynx, and UNIX mail.  The interface can be
    accessed by way of the "UW-EDS" link on the "Electronic Library" page. 
    D. Morton will handle announcements to Gazette and Library staff in 
    general.

    B. Oldfield has contacted Andrea Chappell (DCS), regarding secure
    telnet access to CANSIM.  She now has the shell scripts that were 
    written to provide a restricted environment.  Some bugs remain.

    C. Woods is continuing to work on regular weekly updates for CANSIM.

5.  Census, GSS & VAW - 
    S. Moskal reports that work on the census area of the Library gopher
    is progressing.  UW-EDS plans to offer access to this data in stages.
    patrons will be kept informed via the gopher.

    D. Morton reports that C. Vogt has successfully run SAS/SPSS programs
    against the VAW data.  Testing with other data files will continue.
    C. Vogt will also put together instructions for running the programs.

    B. Oldfield has made another request for a Web to SAS program from
    David Barber, at the University of Michigan.

6.  User Interface - 
    Progress will be reviewed weekly.

7.  Conference Board of Canada - 
    S. Moskal will pursue additional information regarding the Conference
    Board of Canada data files.


Next Meeting: Jan. 25, 1995, 1:30 pm, Davis Library conference room.