[CollEc] New CollEc

Thu Aug 20 13:08:18 UTC 2020

Sorry for the late reply. I currently do not have time for CollEc, because I need to work on two of my papers with upcoming conference presentations.

An issue that I already fixed in a modification a week ago is point 8 on your list. The documentation now mentions the 59,000 people in RAS. To avoid regular manual updates of the number of people in CollEc and the number of authors in the main graph, the daily updating routine now automatically sets these values mentioned in the introduction and the documentation.

I am going to work on the remaining CollEc issues in early September.

Christian Düben
Research Associate
Chair of Macroeconomics
Hamburg University
Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 3102
20146 Hamburg
Germany
+49 40 42838 1898
christian.dueben at uni-hamburg.de
http://www.christian-dueben.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> 
Sent: Sonntag, 16. August 2020 00:04
To: Düben, Christian <Christian.Dueben at uni-hamburg.de>
Cc: Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>; collec-run at lists.openlib.org
Subject: RE: [CollEc] New CollEc

Sorry for the delay. Answers below.

Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   @CZimm_economist

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Dï¿½ben, Christian wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> 1. Which browser do you use? With Firefox, Chrome and Edge I only see one footer on the intro page.

There are twice lines starting with "CollEc was founded by..."

> 2. My RePEc profile is still rather empty. I, therefore, prefer to use my homepage for now.
> 3. I do not recommend setting the parameters - incl. author names - 
> via the URL. It can be a source of errors in the application. As a 
> test, I tried it in the closeness tab. The link to Daron Acemoglu 
> without weighted edges: 
> http://test.collec.repec.org/app_direct/collec_app/?_inputs_&d_author1
> _handle=%22%22&p_author2_handle=%22%22&d_select_var=%22name%22&link_ta
> b_Documentation=0&b_select_var=%22name%22&c_weighting_var=%22inverse%2
> 2&b_weighting_var=%22inverse%22&d_author1_name=%22%22&c_select_var=%22
> name%22&p_author2_name=%22%22&g_view=0&b_author_name=%22%22&d_view=0&p
> _author1_name=%22%22&p_weighting_yn=%22no%22&c_view=1&navbars=%22tab_C
> loseness%22&d_weighting_yn=%22no%22&p_select_var=%22name%22&c_author_n
> ame=%22Daron%20Acemoglu%22&g_select_var=%22name%22&d_author2_name=%22%
> 22&g_author_name=%22%22&g_author_handle=%22%22&p_weighting_var=%22inve
> rse%22&b_author_handle=%22%22&d_author2_handle=%22%22&d_weighting_var=
> %22inverse%22&c_weighting_yn=%22no%22&p_view=0&c_author_handle=%22%22&
> p
 _author1_handle=%22%22&b_view=0&b_weighting_yn=%22no%22. However, the app gets stuck when opening it via this URL rather than by clicking through the app. Even if I somehow fix this, the links only remain valid until I change the app and introduce further parameters or change the names of the current ones. Thus, links to specific authors' pages are not available at this point.

I would still aprreciate to point people to there landing page.

> 4. It is an interactive D3 JavaScript Network Graph. When you hover with your mouse over a vertex, it displays the respective author's name or short ID and highlights his or her co-authors (Co-Authors tab at 6:14 in tutorial video). Thus, it also illustrates the links between the blue co-author vertices. I can add a note on that in the text.

Yes please (somehow I always end up getting the questions).

> 5. If you have access to the server, I can send you the path to the closeness and betweenness files. An external download functionality is yet to be implemented.

If you can put a file somewhere through ftp ot http(s),  that would be great.

> 6. How long should the blog post be?

As long as necessary. See past posts for reference. There is a lot of variation.

> 7. I have no idea how well this scales with potentially thousands of users. The app is designed to only use a minimum of computational resources when users interact with it. We will see if this one server can handle the load after the app is released.

The most traffic will likely come when I announce it in the monthly email. 
That is staggered over a week, because the RePEc Author Service cannot handle the traffic (working on it...).

> 8. The network only entails authors who published co-authored research. If you like, I can add a note on the overall number of people in RAS.
>

Yes please.

>
> Christian Dï¿½ben
> Research Associate
> Chair of Macroeconomics
> Hamburg University
> Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 3102
> 20146 Hamburg
> Germany
> +49 40 42838 1898
> christian.dueben at uni-hamburg.de
> http://www.christian-dueben.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>
> Sent: Montag, 10. August 2020 17:31
> To: Dï¿½ben, Christian <Christian.Dueben at uni-hamburg.de>
> Cc: Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>; collec-run at lists.openlib.org
> Subject: Re: [CollEc] New CollEc
>
> Looks great!
>
> A couple of comments:
> 1- On the intro page, it looks like there are two footers.
> 2- Personal preference: I like links to RePEc profiles instead of homepages (more stable), in the footer.
> 3- Is there a way to link to a particular author on any of the pages? I would like to maintain a link from author profiles on IDEAS.
> 4- I am not sure what the cloud means in the co-author tab. Does it include co-author-links amongst co-authors? If so, say so more clearly.
> 5- I need a way to find the closeness and betweenness data to download for the author rankings.
> 6- As this is launched, it would be good to have an accompanying blog post.
> 7- I would announce this in the monthly mailing. Can this sustain a surge in traffic?
> 8- 47K authors are in the network, but RAS has 59K authors. Important distinction.
>
>
> Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
> Economic Research
> Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
> P.O. Box 442
> St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
> https://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   @CZimm_economist
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Dï¿½ben, Christian wrote:
>
>> Great. Thanks.
>>
>> The app can now be accessed at test.collec.repec.org.
>>
>> In my opinion, the app is ready to be publicly released. Is there anything you would like to add or modify?
>>
>> Christian Dï¿½ben
>> Research Associate
>> Chair of Macroeconomics
>> Hamburg University
>> Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 3102
>> 20146 Hamburg
>> Germany
>> +49 40 42838 1898
>> christian.dueben at uni-hamburg.de
>> http://www.christian-dueben.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>
>> Sent: Montag, 10. August 2020 12:26
>> To: Dï¿½ben, Christian <Christian.Dueben at uni-hamburg.de>
>> Cc: collec-run at lists.openlib.org
>> Subject: Re: New CollEc
>>
>>  Dï¿½ben, Christian writes
>>> Thanks.
>>
>>  Looks like it's not in a separate package
>>
>> root at darni ~ # apt search ws_tunnel
>> Sorting... Done
>> Full Text Search... Done
>> root at darni ~ # a2enmod  proxy_wstunnel Considering dependency proxy 
>> for proxy_wstunnel:
>> Module proxy already enabled
>> Enabling module proxy_wstunnel.
>> To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
>>  systemctl restart apache2
>> root at darni ~ #  systemctl restart apache2
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>>                                              skype:thomaskrichel
>>
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