BORIS is an easy-to-use event logging software for video/audio coding or live observations.
BORIS is a free and open-source software available for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
It provides also some analysis tools like time budget.
The BORIS publication has more than 500 citations in scientific publications with peer-reviewing.
The official documentation is hosted here: http://boris.readthedocs.io/
The documentation provides a good starting point for learning how to use BORIS.
Some video tutorials are available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-Jyvzawwp0bRMEor4aLVQ
To search for bugs, report them or request a feature, please use the github tracker: https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/issues
Please see http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/report_a_bug.html before
Please acknowledge and cite the use of this software and its authors when results are used in publications or published elsewhere. You can use the following BibTex entry
@article {MEE3:MEE312584,
author = {Friard, Olivier and Gamba, Marco},
title = {BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations},
journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
issn = {2041-210X},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12584},
doi = {10.1111/2041-210X.12584},
pages = {n/a--n/a},
keywords = {behavioural analysis, behaviour coding, coding scheme, ethology, observational data, ttime-budget},
year = {2016},
}
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