University of Waterloo
                    Electronic Data Service Working Group
                   Minutes for Meeting of October 23, 1996
                                 D R A F T


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

CC: Mark Haslett, Charles Woods

1.  Minutes of Previous Meeting - Approved.

2.  Add'l Agenda - Leisure Studies Database

3.  Business Arising - During a recent meeting with the Mapping, Analysis
    and Design group, Richard Pinnell reported on geo-spatial as well as
    other dataset maintained by the UWL-EDS.  He also mentioned our
    current plans for anonymous FTP delivery of such data to the rest of 
    the UW community. M.A.D. was excited to hear about these things.  It 
    was also decided that all corresponding references to assistance on
    the UWELIB pages would be changed to point to the M.A.D. helpdesk,
    rather than an individual.

4.  Leisure Studies Database - Richard Pinnell met recently with Roger
    Mannell, former Chair of Recreation & Leisure Studies, regarding
    our involvement in the acquisition/storage of LSDB data.  Upon 
    Roger's return from a conference in Kansas City, he will make some
    data available to us.  It was tentatively agreed that the data 
    would reside on the Attic system.  Apparently, there are charges
    incurred with accessing data on Attic.  The group will ask Carol
    Vogt to look into what these charges are, and how UWL-EDS would 
    be billed for such access.

    Roger has also agreed to provide a machine-readable list of all
    available LSDB data files.

5.  Dec. 5th Meeting: John Wilson - Sue Moskal spoke with John recently.
    His concerns involve the integrity of surveys and other important
    research data, currently being stored on tape.  Sue assured John
    that these data are fine, and that the problem he experienced was 
    the result of how the data was read from tape.  However, the meeting
    will proceed as planned at 10:00 a.m., in the Davis Library conference
    room (DC1568).  Additional agenda items may include discussion of 
    other existing datasets on campus.

6.  Faculty Representation - Jim Brox of the Economics Faculty has 
    expressed an interest in assisting the UWL-EDS with making the CANSIM
    and E-STAT databases available campus-wide.  This will be discussed
    further at a future meeting.

7.  Data Release Form - Richard's copy of the Data Release Form, which
    has been proposed for use by the UWL-EDS, was reviewed by group
    members.  Various suggestions for improvement were made.  Sue will
    Sue will mention the form during her next meeting with Mark Haslett.
    It will then be discussed further at a future meeting.

8.  CD-ROMs and Networking - The group agreed to pursue networking 
    databases such as CANSIM, CANSIM Directory, and E-STAT.  These are
    considered to be high-use databases and are therefore strong
    candidates for network access.
 
9.  Future Agenda - Faculty Representation
                    Data Release Form
                    CD-ROMs & Networking
                    Use Statistics
                    FTP Data Delivery System

Next Meeting: November 6, 1996, 1:30 p.m., Room 407 (Porter).