=============================================================== Behavioral Observation Research Interactive Software (BORIS)

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 MacOS.

It provides also some analysis tools like time budget. See all the features <http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/features.html>_ for details.

The upcoming version 8 contains more features: features added in v. 8 <http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/boris_v8.html>_.

The BORIS publication <https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.12584>_ has more than 800 citations in scientific publications <http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/citations.html>_ with peer-reviewing (Scopus source).

See http://www.boris.unito.it

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Documentation

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 <http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/video_tutorials.html>_ are available:

Bug reports and feature requests

To search for bugs, report them or request a feature, please use the github tracker: https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/issues

Please see How to report a bug <http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/report_a_bug.html>_ before.

Citing BORIS

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, time-budget},
year = {2016},
}

Licence

Distributed with a GPL v.3 license <LICENSE.TXT>_

Copyright 2012-2022 Olivier Friard