[CollEc] [External] Re: CollEc

[Christian Zimmermann]

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
>