More Perl and some reading

Today, I went ahead to use Perl to do some work.

I exported 50 paper in XML format from the ECS eprints, then used XML::Simple module from CPAN to parse and try to get some data out of the XML file.

I successfully printed out the author's name, id and paper's title in the given XML file in the format I wanted -- This means I am able to get data out of a XML file now, and I should start thinking about the network attributes I want to calculate for my research, and how to write program to calculate them.




For the rest of the day, I started reading instead, found some paper that talked about what to calculate to characterise a network and why and how (Newman, M. The structure and function of complex networks Arxiv preprint cond-mat/0303516, 2003). I can see myself start write some program to calculate them tomorrow.jh