Publications

• Shah, Chirag. Supporting Research Data Collection from YouTube with TubeKit. Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP), 7(2-3), 226-240 [DOI].
• Shah, Chirag. What Do You Look Like on YouTube? Politics Magazine. July 2009. [Online]
• Shah, Chirag. TubeKit - A Query-based YouTube Crawling Toolkit. In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 5(1), Spring 2009. [Online]
• Marchionini, Gary, Shah, Chirag, Lee, Christopher A., Capra, Robert. Query Parameters for Harvesting Digital Video and Associated Contextual Information. In the Proceedings of JCDL 2009. June 15-19, 2009. Austin, Texas.
• Shah, Chirag. Supporting Research Data Collection from YouTube with TubeKit. In the Proceedings of YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States. April 16-17, 2009. Amherst, MA. (3rd prize)
• Shah, Chirag. TubeKit - A Query-based YouTube Crawling Toolkit. Demo at JCDL 2008.
• Capra, Robert, Lee, Christopher A., Marchionini, Gary, Russell, Terrell, Shah, Chirag, and Stutzman, Fred. Selection and Context Scoping for Digital Video Collections: An Investigation of YouTube and Blogs. In JCDL 2008.
• Shah, Chirag and Marchionini, Gary. Preserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos. In the Proceedings of International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2007.

Talks

• Supporting Research Data Collection from YouTube with TubeKit. At YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States Conference. April 16, 2009. Amherst, MA. [Talk]
• Republic of Web: A web of, by, and for the people. CRADLE talk. UNC Chapel Hill. November 14, 2008. [Slides in PDF]
• We, the People on YouTube: Understanding Democracy of, by, and for the Online Media Sharing. University Research Day Talk. UNC Chapel Hill. March 4, 2008.
• Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube - A ContextMiner Story. CRADLE Talk. UNC Chapel Hill. September 21, 2007.
• Finding Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen on YouTube. Yahoo! Research Berkeley, CA. August 10, 2007.
• Preserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos. International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) 2007. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 23, 2007.

Related Projects

• ContextMiner: a general framework to collect contextual information for digital objects.
• InfoExtractor: a quick point-and-extract tool for various social media sites.