University of Waterloo
             Electronic Data Service Task Group
               Minutes of Meeting Mar 1, 1995


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

Absent:   Debbie Tytko

1.   Minutes of the meeting of Feb. 22, 1995

     No changes.

2.   Agenda Review & other Minutiae

     No change to the agenda.
     Bill Oldfield volunteered to take the secretary's
     duties for March.

3.   LSDB

     Roger Mannell of Recreation and Leisure Studies was a
     guest at the meeting to discuss offering the Leisure
     Studies Databank datasets through UW-EDS.  The results
     of the discuss was agreement that offering this
     information through UW-EDS was a valuable goal to
     pursue.  The lack of room and personnel makes the on-
     line delivery of this data via "healthy", the
     department's computer, impractical at this time.  The
     data will have to be loaded unto the Library's
     computer.

     Roger said he would select a few datasets that he feels
     could be of immediate value to use as a test.  All the
     files are in SPSS Export format.  He agreed that he
     would extract the codebooks from the files and deliver
     them to us using ftp.  With the codebook file and the
     SPSS file UW-EDS can offer the datasets through the
     Electronic Data Service.
     Roger stated that it would take him a couple of weeks
     to get things together.

     The question of the number of sets and the size of the
     files was asked.  Since all the files are on Attic,
     Carol Vogt said she would attempt to determine the
     number and size of the files involved.

4.   CANSIM / EPAS

     Andrea Chappell is still working on setting up secure
     telnet access to the EPAS software.

     There was a discussion of changing the frequency when
     using the Websim program.  Albert has made a change
     which allows this capability.

     Albert contacted Toronto about how they provide access
     via matrix.  The answer said that a client had been
     developed but no offer of the program or help was
     forthcoming.

5.   Census, GSS data, VAW & LSDB

     Carol Vogt mentioned write ups for  running SAS and
     SPSS on UNIX which she has prepared.  They will be sent
     as attachment through email.

     Albert was asked to set up a listing of the NFS
     directories that can be used to find out where various
     datasets reside for access via NFS.