[Air-l] Hyperlink analysis tools

[elijah wright]

> I am a graduate student studying hyperlink analysis.  I am looking for 
> some softwares to identifying the structures of web links.  If anyone 
> knows good softwares for that, please, let me know.

the answer will depend on the scale and type of research you want to do, 
along with the kind of questions you plan to try to answer.

At the very lowest end, you can do this kind of work with something like 
Excel or Access.

In the middle range, look especially at UCINET, Pajek, Siena, and a few 
other tools.  The R statistical programming environment and databases like 
PostgreSQL are quite useful for medium-large datasets.

On the upper end, to deal with very large networks of links, you'll be 
writing much of your own software.  There just aren't generalizable tools 
to deal with very large networks.


--elijah