[Air-L] Software or tool for video analysis, forum-scraping

[Daniel Thomas]

The crimebot tool for forum scraping and the crimebb dataset resulting 
from that scraping are described in this paper:
"CrimeBB: Enabling Cybercrime Research on Underground Forums at Scale"
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sp849/files/2018-crimebb.pdf

The tool and the datasets are available through the Cambridge Cybercrime 
Centre.

https://www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/process.html

Best wishes,

Daniel

On 18/05/18 13:44, Marcelo Santos wrote:
> Anybody on forums scraping?
> 
> El El lun, 14 de may. de 2018 a las 03:01, Roberto de Roock <
> roberto.deroock at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
>> In terms of video, the best software out there (in my experience) are
>> Transana (https://www.transana.com/) and ELAN (
>> https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/).
>>
>> Both are specifically for video analysis and allow syncing of multiple
>> video or audio streams. They differ in terms of the types of analysis they
>> are geared towards.
>>
>> I prefer Transana as it works well for large data sets so you can code
>> across files and assemble "collections" of different video segments - so
>> can do a grounded theory analysis (for example) similar  to what NVIVO
>> allows. It also has a multiuser version that I am trying out with my team
>> now (but I'm not terribly impressed so far).
>>
>> The main appeal of ELAN is that you can code (horizontally) along the video
>> timeline, which is really nice for detailed multimodal (or multilayered)
>> data.
>>
>> You can find some of my writing on using video analysis to examine digital
>> activity in classrooms, including syncing multiple views (specifically
>> on-screen and around computers):
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberto_De_Roock
>>
>> Happy to answer any questions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Roberto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Toupin, Rémi <toupin.remi at uqam.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am a PhD candidate in Science, technology, society at UQAM (Université
>>> du Québec à Montréal) as well as the coordinator of a research
>>> infrastructure we are putting in place to study the use of digital
>>> technologies and medias through thick data approaches. As such, we plan
>> to
>>> have a lot of video data - wether on field or at the lab - and we are
>>> looking for a software or a tool that would help us analyze this data.
>>> Basically, we are looking for something where we could annotate the video
>>> (something like NVivo but better suited for video) while integrating
>> other
>>> layers of data (ex. the verbatim of the interview), possibly by
>>> synchronizing these layers together (if that is possible). We were
>>> wondering if such a tool might exist, and if yes, what might be some of
>>> your suggestions?
>>>
>>> We are also planning to have data extracted from social media, web sites
>>> or forums. About the forums, we were wondering if there was any tool
>> (like
>>> a web-scraper maybe?) that could help us extract
>> publications/conversations
>>> automatically through some filters?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your help! We are looking forward to make this
>> new
>>> research space running.
>>>
>>> Rémi Toupin
>>> toupin.remi at uqam.ca
>>> Co-coordinator LabCMO
>>> PhD Candidate - Science, technology and society
>>> Université du Québec à Montréal
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-- 
Dr Daniel R. Thomas
Researcher, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge
GE20, Computer Laboratory, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK
Honorary Research Associate, Peterhouse, Cambridge