If you use Firefox, then the Zotero plugin could do what you want. See
http://www.zotero.org/ .
Nicholas Gibson
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> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:05:16 +0200
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Retrieving forum discussions
>
> Do you know of ways to collect information from web discussion
> boards, to be later analysed using suitable qual-software?
>
> If I wished to collect a lot of messages or everything from a single
> discussion system, I would probably program some kind of
> spider/harvester to collect the info automatically.
>
> If the idea is to collect info from many different forums while
> browsing the net, maybe something like google notebook
> (http://www.google.com/notebook/ ) or
> clipmarks ( http://www.clipmarks.com/ )
> or some orher, perhaps self-made ajax/ browser plugin type of gizmo
> could do the trick.
>
> Or maybe simply just some copy-paste -scheme would be suffficient for
> many purposes.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> How about clues for analysing the discussions? In atlas/ti -terms:
> what do you think would be the "primary document"? One posting, or a
> thread? Or is there some special tricks / programs for just this type
> of data? Google notebooks seems to offer tools for "coding on the
> fly".
>
> -Timo Harmo
> Computing Coordinator, Fac of Soc Sci, U of Helsinki. Tel 358 09
> 191 24915
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