[CollEc] repec genealogy/citation/coauthor raw data

[Lars Vilhuber]

Thomas, Christian:

(I'll continue the discussion in English, since I might want to forward this to my RAs)

This is doable!

I may have a very competent undergraduate RA to work on this in the Spring. I'll have more details (on his availability) in about 2 weeks.

I'm putting together a quick write-up of why this makes sense from our projects, and why it might make sense for RePEc (or in general). I'm aiming for something that would be maintainable as an actual web app on (your? our?) servers as part of the network.

I can see all the data (I think) I need on the page that Christian sent me, except for the genealogy data. Possibly Thomas has data in a more concise format than us parsing the RePEc:per archive? But that's no problem. Can you provide me with a one-time dump  (extract probably is NOT sufficient if done randomly, but could be time-based - birthday of the person in the database?) for now of the genealogy database? (what format are you using there? )
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From: Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 03:17
To: Lars Vilhuber
Cc: CollEc Run; Christian Zimmermann
Subject: Re: repec genealogy/citation/coauthor raw data

  Lars Vilhuber wrote:

> this is what I was aiming to do:
>
> http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/repecgraph/
>
> in my abundant free time. I have a programmer who would be perfectly
> capable of doing that, but no time right now (may change in a
> year). Also, if you are interested, I could propose this to one of
> our Cornell CS classes - they do 'client-oriented visualization
> projects' and could probably do this with a dump of the data, if not
> an API.
>
> This is just idle thoughts, but who knows...

  'Christian Zimmermann' writes

> I always wanted http://collec.repec.org/ to have something like this.

  Me to. But I don't have the expertise.

> Thomas may help you getting access to the CollEc data/server for
> starters.

  I surely will be pleased to do that.


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