Under the growing set of tools that is composed of $AITECH , the @AITECH team has created a Website Contact Details Extractor to be used in the Agent Forge platform, already studied by the #SocialMining members with a focus on the possible uses of this tool in a research-based context. The extractor finds out publicly posted contact details like the email addresses, phone numbers, and any social media account profile on target websites.
In the case of community-based initiatives, it may allow automating the process of compiling verified contact lists without using manual, time-consuming search. The efficiency that it promises can be useful to market analysts, ecosystem researchers, and participants of Social Mining as well, albeit on the condition that the treatment of the data should be ethical and with regard to the privacy conventions.
In practice, these tools may be easily combined into extended processes by the members of the Social Mining organization. They can outline the step-by-step process, evaluate the quality of output and exchange freely about how the group can work better on group threads. Through such exchanges, the technical competency of a person becomes a common good to the community.
It is focused on beneficial utilization, the meaning of which is finding out the possibilities of collaboration, creating industry community maps, or developing an informed panning of outreach. Implementing automation in partnership with human supervision, the Social Mining contributors introduce the possibility of improving research method potential without substituting it with computing power.
