Who made ManuScrape?
ManuScrape is a collaborative open-source project developed by the MOD-Lab at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology and Code Collective. The tool's developed, stems from the intertwined needs of research ethics, sociology, social data science, criminology, and GDPR compliance, catering to both structured and exploratory ethnographic approaches in digital research.
Funding
Funding for the project comes from the external funded research projects in MOD-Lab. Most important is the: "Hateful online youth sociality - A digital study of how extreme textual and visual online content is used and shared ( ExOC)" and "Interventions in grey-zone online markets for Illicit Puffbars and related tobacco products ( GRIP)". These projects have their funding from respectively Independent Research Foundation Denmark and Tryg Foundation .
The ongoing development of ManuScrape relies on collaborative efforts within the Open Science community. However, additional funding will be sought by the MOD-Lab to implement new and expanded features.
Digital Ansvar has contributed to a specification of a tool for video anonymization that the MOD-Lab crew intend to require funding for.
Key contributors
From MOD-lab:
- Jakob Demant, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
- Kristoffer Aagesen , Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
- And several additional collaborators (TBA)
From Code Collective:
- Nikolaj, Software developer
- Jens, Design & Frontend developer
Central Contributors to the open source project:
- Samuel Himmelstrup
- Rasmus Pallisgaard, DIKU, University of Copenhagen
Open source development
ManuScrape is released under the MIT open source license. All development is on Github, which works as the platform for collaborative development. The day to day communication is on the Discord channel.
We wish for a lot of GitHub issues to be posted, including bug-reports, suggestions, optimizations and discussions. If you are not sure where to start, you can connect with us informally on the Discord channel. The research team at the MOD-Lab and the core developers can be reached there quickly.
Discord community & support channel
Join the support and discussion channel on Discord.
Media, research and conference publications
Publications that have used ManuScrape as part of their method are listed here.
You should feel free to email publications to Jakob Demant.
- TBA
