VOSON (decomissioned)
VOSON was phased out in 2020. Hyperlink collection and network generation available via R package vosonSML.
VOSON is web-based software incorporating web mining, data visualisation, and traditional empirical social science methods (e.g. social network analysis, SNA). Text analysis, dataset manipulation and visualisation, and social network analysis (SNA) are available within an integrated environment.
VOSON is a fully-integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Insights from VOSON have been used in academia, by government departments and agencies around the world since 2006.
VOSON has been commercially hosted and developed by Uberlink Corp since 2010.
About VOSON
VOSON academic citation
Ackland, R. (2010), "WWW Hyperlink Networks," Chapter 12 in D. Hansen, B. Shneiderman and M. Smith (eds), Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world. Morgan-Kaufmann. (pre-print)
Documentation*
User Guide
Updated June 2017 for VOSON 2.5
Quickstart Guide
Updated September 2017 for VOSON 2.5