Easy question, I hope

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Dear Christina, 
 
You can label arcs and edges in Pajek using the options on the input file.
In the Pajek manual, you find this at the end under the heading "Exports to
EPS/SVG/VRML". It shows only in these formats. (Thus, it is not visible on
screen.) Figure 16 in the manual provides an example. I find it easiest to
export as SVG. Under IE (not Firefox) one can rightclick on an SVG and copy
it into Paint or more sophisticated programs. 
 
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/doc/pajekman.pdf
 
Best wishes, 
 
 
Loet
 
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K.
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:58 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Easy question, I hope


Hi All-
I suspect this is either easy or impossible:  I have a coauthorship network
for institutions and I've extracted a few ego networks for institutions of
interest.  The person for whom I've done this work has asked that the edges
be labeled with keywords from the linking papers.
 
Since I'm using VantagePoint to clean the data and create the matrices, it's
pretty easy (although ugly from an information science point of view) to
actually compile interesting (inverted frequency or whatever) keywords.  So
I thought there would be a way to do line attributes or something instead of
just node attributes?
 
I've been looking through the de Nooy, Mrvar, and Batagelj book and I see
pictures with words next to the lines (sort of like one would draw out an
ontology), but in both NetDraw and Pajek I can only figure out how to turn
numerical weights on and off.
 
I guess I could always photoshop the exported image, but that's not so
elegant!
 
Help?
 
Thanks in advance,
Christina
 
P.S. - Has anyone else tried VantagePoint for getting the data ready to go
into UCINET or Pajek?  It's fairly helpful at rolling up various versions of
institution names in Scopus.



Christina K. Pikas, MLS 
R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
Voice  240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) 
Fax 443.778.5353 

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