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 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.
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 are available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-Jyvzawwp0bRMEor4aLVQ
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 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, ttime-budget},
year = {2016},
}
Licence
Distributed with a GPL v.3 license:
Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Olivier Friard