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Navicrawler

http://www.webatlas.fr/index.php?page=English


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Type: Software Application
Status: Public
Source: Webatlas
Difficulty: Need some exploration
Compatibility: Needs firefox
Language: French
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Navicrawler is a Firefox applet. By using it, you can create graphs representing all the websites you have visited as well as classify and list those websites. Navicrawler collects those data while you navigate, helping you to understand your own exploration. Its create graphs (but you will have to use other softwares - such as Pajek or Guess- to visualize them.) Navicrawler has been developed mainly for the needs of social sciences research. Its aims is to ease gathering helpful data for the study of the web. It was build to allow experts to explore the web, to visualize it as a territory, and to constitute corpuses useful for them. Navicrawler is a free software, open source under GPL licence.


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Tommaso Venturini    1 Jun 2008    05:18
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Pretty easy to use (but be ready to spend some time to read the documentation) and very powerful. Unfortunately, it only collects data and has not function to visualise them (must be use with some network visualising tool, i.e. Pajek or Guess.

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