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 and Windows. You can not longer run BORIS natively on MacOS (since v.8). Some alternatives to run the last version of BORIS are available, see BORIS on MacOS.
It provides also some analysis tools like time budget and some plotting functions.
The BORIS paper has more than 1400 citations in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
The documentation provides a good starting point for learning how to use BORIS: http://boris.readthedocs.io/
Some video tutorials are available: http://www.boris.unito.it/pages/video_tutorials.html
To search for bugs, report them or request a feature, please use the github tracker: https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/issues
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 = {1324--1330},
keywords = {behavioural analysis, behaviour coding, coding scheme, ethology, observational data, ttime-budget},
year = {2016},
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.Distributed with a GPL v.3 license
Copyright (C) 2012-2023 Olivier Friard