Until 1985 LBNL was supported by the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration to produce reports of 1970 and 1980 census data for DOL's programmatic needs. The SEEDIS project was managed by Carl Quong, who is still at LBNL but now working in a different area.
From 1976 until 1995 a project known as PAREP (Populations at Risk to Environmental Pollution) was supported, first by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and since 1978 by the Department of Energy (DOE). The PAREP project integrated census data and health data for studying trends and geographic distributions of disease rates. Principal investigators were Deane Merrill and Steve Selvin, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). Deane Merrill has a Physics Ph.D. from UCB (1967) and is completing a Doctorate of Public Health, in Epidemiology.
Since October 1995 LBNL has received funding from the Bureau of the Census for maintenance of LOOKUP, a Web-based retrieval system for 1990 Census data; and for maintenance of a CD-ROM information system which provides Internet access to 300 CD-ROMs of Census and other government data.
A former SEEDIS developer, Fred Gey, now works at UC DATA (University of California Data Archive and Technical Assistance). LBNL and UC DATA are collaborating with the UC Berkeley Libraries to develop electronic data resources for the UC academic community. Formation of an inter-university library consortium is under discussion.