University of Waterloo 
	Electronic Data Service Task Group
	Minutes for Meeting of February 8/95



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

C.C.:		Bruce MacNeil
		Mike Ridley
		Boris Bruder
		Charles Woods
		Betty Graf
		Esther Millar


1.Minutes of the Previous meeting

Under 'CANSIM/EPAS', change "The following individuals have been given 
temporary access" to "The following individuals will be given temporary 
access".

Also correct spelling of name to 'Bo Wandschneider (University of Guelph)'


2.Business Arising

Bill Oldfield will continue to look at ways for retrieving meaningful 
statistics.

Two possible enhancements identified in the CANSIM area are:

a.Ability to specify beginning and ending dates
b.Ability to search matrix


3.Additional Agenda

Faculty purchasing datasets for EDS.


4.CANSIM

It would be valuable to have a list of commonly used series numbers eg. 
CPI, included in CANSIM.


5.CENSUS, GSS and VAW

A back-up schedule would be set-up with the assistance of Charles Woods 
as new datasets are received.


6.User Interface

Carol Vogt will discuss with Erin Harvey how Web to SAS could be made 
userfriendly for SPSS users.

Bill Oldfield will contact with Ian Goldberg at the Computer Science Club 
to find out if there are any competent and interested students available 
who could assist the UWEDS Committee.


7.Faculty purchasing datsets for EDS

Shabiran had the request from Dr. John Goyder, Sociology, who was willing 
to buy a dataset from a research grant and was wondering if UWEDS could 
put it up.  Bill Oldfield had a similar question earlier.  UWEDS would 
put the dataset on provided the conditions laid out in the UWEDS Policy 
statement were met:-

a.The Dataset was of interest and use to the larger UW Community

b.Permission was available to make the dataset available to the UW community

c.Documentation and system files for the dataset were available


Doug Morton agreed to add the UWEDS Policy Statement to the "About EDS" 
file on the Gopher.