University of Waterloo
                Electronic Data Service Task Group
                 Minutes of Meeting June 12, 1996


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

1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting
     none

2.   Business Arising
     5    Debbie Tytko spoke to the Information Resource Processing process
          group about UWL-EDS, about who we are and what we are doing.  They
          were already fairly aware of us.

3.   Additional Agenda
     8.   Faculty Development Days
     9.   Data Request Form

4.   Progress Report
     Several suggested changes had been incorporated into the progress
     report. Revised copies were distributed and briefly discussed.  Any new
     comments must be in to Doug by Wed. June 19, at which point it will be
     amended, and posted to the web with paper copies to members and M.C.
     Shepherd.

     It was felt that, as long as this and subsequent reports were
     approximately annual, it need not be strictly based on the fiscal year.

5.   CAPDU meeting report
     Susan Moskal reported that the CAPDU annual meeting found many other
     data services in a similar situation as us - looking at resource sharing
     and distributed computing, and facing organizational changes.

     Her report will be deposited with the Library office; some items of
     note:
     re DLI
     - procedures are being developed for dealing with requests from outside
     the university; such users could be assisted after paying StatsCan a fee
     and providing receipts.
     - requests from non-governmental organizations should be sent to
     StatsCan for vetting on an individual basis until they have enough
     information to develop a rule.
     - we must be vigilant to watch for students on work-terms obtaining data
     for employers.  A discussion ensued about responsibility for data after
     it's out of our hands, It was suggested that we develop a small "readme"
     file that can accompany datasets that we distribute.
     - Ownership of data follows the general rule of thumb from StatsCan "If
     the data can be reverse engineered to show the original form then it is
     still owned by StatsCan"
     - The DLI agreement will be reviewed in the near future. Efforts to
     bring in other agencies will begin in year three.  Phase 2 of DLI will
     focus on training.
     - Proposals for a national data archive were discussed.
     - Vince Grey of UWO is setting up a website for CAPDU and the eastern
     Canada ICPSR federation.
     - Susan Moskal demonstrated the StatsCan thematic search tool (helps
     find which datasets have what data).

6.   IASSIST report
     deferred

7.   TUG - DLI
     Data services at WLU, UW and UG are meeting to develop a common web page
     and investigate avenues of cooperation.  Albert Kemp demonstrated the
     DLI web pages he has developed and a prototype order form.

8.   TRACE
     Susan Moskal is looking for a faculty member who has used data in
     classroom assignments.

8.   Data Request Forms
     Susan Moskal is developing some request forms to aid in tracking
     requests and keeping statistics.