[mswen]

Cool goal - reminds me a bit of the graph of boards of directors which lets you see how the web of board members for major corporations are intertwined.

My first assumption was that you had scrapped University sites and/or tried mining LinkedIn and had already constructed a database of thousands of scholars and their academic genealogy. But from your comment that doesn't seem to be the case.

[mende]

Thanks for the encouraging word. Yes, you're absolutely right, initial data were generated by data mining several other websites, but our goal is to build this database as a wiki such that anyone can correct errors, add more profiles, add more connections, etc.