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If you use Firefox, then the Zotero plugin could do what you want. See http://www.zotero.org/ . Nicholas Gibson > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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