[CollEc] CollEc 2.0 Access

[Thomas Krichel]

  Düben, Christian writes

> Vimeo apparently does not display ads. But that
> might change at one point and I am not going to monitor that
> platform's ad policy. Therefore, I hosted the video locally for now,
> despite the mentioned disadvantages.

  It's up to you really. 

> I added the daily update routine to the crontab file.

  I was wondering if you had stopped because the load of the server
  seems to have drastically declined. I don't notice it any more. 

> The loading time at app startup is annoying

  It seems much faster now. I think it reaches ok state. I mean
  a lot of sites are slow these day, maybe we need to keep up
  with the times. 

> and I looked into its
> causes and ways to circumvent it. Its source is the way ShinyProxy
> makes the app available. Whenever a user accesses the app,
> ShinyProxy spins up a new Docker container with the app in it. Once
> the user becomes inactive, ShinyProxy removes the container. And the
> initial startup time is essentially the time it takes to spin up
> that container. If users were first directed to an index page, on
> which they select the app, I could pre-initialize the container once
> they enter that index page. Unfortunately, ShinyProxy does not
> support pre-initializing containers when users access the app
> directly, like in our case. In short, the loading time at startup
> remains for now.

  Is it normal that it is all grey?
  
  Would it not be possible to set up static pages, and have the app only
  be active if there is a need to work on user input? 

  I think that the start page explains what the service does. Then there should be
  a video, and then background and whosdone it.

CollEc is a RePEc service that evaluates the economic literature's
co-authorship network. It allows you to assess bilateral distances and
centrality measures like closeness and betweenness for more than
47,000 authors. As in GraphEc, you interact with the results through
graphical representations.

Feel free to watch the following
tutorial for a brief introduction to CollEc's functionalities. Note
that the video player depends on your browser. In some browsers you
may need to right-click on the video to select the full screen option.

  like closeness and betweenness --> called closeness and betweenness

  Then I suggest the video and then

 It is maintained by Christian Düben. Our data comes from the RePEc
Author Service, a RePEc service maintained by Christian Zimmermann
. Further details are available in the documentation .

CollEc was founded by Thomas Krichel in 2011.

  I am not sure we need you and me in the end here because we
  have it in the footer.


> Could you tell me how you linked test.collec.repec.org to the app?
> As I mentioned in an earlier e-mail, it does not work. I would need
> some specifics to find the bug.

  It was a five-minute job. 

root at darni ~ # cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/collec.repec.org
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName test.collec.repec.org
  ServerAlias test.collec.openlib.org
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/collec.proxy-error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/collec-access.log  combined
  UseCanonicalName Off
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse  / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>


> I can barely talk without coughing these days. But I am going to produce the video as soon as possible.
>


> Apart from the video and the URL connection issue, I think that the app is ready to become publicly available.
> 
> I have the impression that you upset or unsatisfied with this project. Did I do something that upset you? Did the app development take too long? Do you not like the layout or the content? I could have developed the app faster, but I wanted to try various optimizations before releasing it. And familiarizing myself with Docker, MariaDB, ShinyProxy, Shiny etc. took a while. I am sorry, if I upset you. Please feel free to provide any feedback or suggestions.
> 

  I'm very sorry for appearing to be grumpy!

  I don't know how to use the selection screen.

  The select by is confusing. I don't seem to be able to get anything from
  it. I type "Krichel" or pkr1 in there and just nothing happens.

  I think we need the ranked lists there and finally we will need exports.

-- 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                              skype:thomaskrichel