[CollEc] [External] Re: CollEc

[Christian Zimmermann]

Reminder.

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, Christian Zimmermann wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>
>>   Christian Zimmermann writes
>>
>>>  I am expecting to speak early May at a meeting of network economists.
>>
>>   What meeting exactly? If I see what they work on, maybe I can see
>>   if I have technology to offer.
>> 
>
> A meeting of young economists working on networks. I expect them to have a 
> sophisticated knowledge, thus saying you Dijkstra's algorithm is not 
> sufficient. They will want details.
>
>>>  I will talk about CollEc, and how this can be used to study
>>>  networks. People likely will want to know some details about the
>>>  computations. If you have any details I can share beyond what is on
>>>  http://collec.repec.org/doc.html, they would be welcome.
>>
>>   I could spruce up that document for the occasion. If you send me a
>>   list of questions that would be helpful.
>>
>>>  I will make a pitch for volunteers. Maybe I can find someone interested
>>>  in
>>>  helping with CollEc.
>>
>>   Up for grabs if somebody wants to take it over. Rewriting it in
>>   Python would not be hard because the web interfaces is
>>   written in XSLT, so you don't have to redo that. In fact
>>   it would probably be quite easy to redo the computations
>>   in Python, and leave the search in Perl.
>> 
>>
>>  -- 
>>
>>   Cheers,
>>
>>   Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>>                                               skype:thomaskrichel
>> 
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