[KS] KCNA and Rodong Sinmun Article Data

[Frank Hoffmann]

Thank you Scott.
I see it is just the English language editions (makes searching for 
names a bit problematic).
Question: I am logged in, have marked the two NK Datasets, but all 
searches get me zero hits, even if searching for terms like "Kim" or 
"water" or "train." What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.
Frank

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:51:58 -0400, Scott Fisher wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Thanks to a recent grant, we've been able to assemble databases of 
> articles from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and the Rodong 
> Sinmun. For KCNA the articles run from 1 October 2008 to 27 Feb 2020, 
> just over 85,000 articles. The Rodong Sinmun database is smaller, 
> running from 2 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2019, just over 7,100 articles. 
> Both represent all articles available on the respective websites at 
> the time of the scrape/collection earlier this year. 
> 
> We added sentiment and topic analysis to the data, put everything 
> into Tableau, and made both databases searchable on the affiliated 
> project's website: https://focusdataproject.com/north-korea/. Note 
> the interesting spike in reporting in Dec 2011. You can run searches 
> using the Search Article Text feature - comparing KCNA sentiment 
> regarding Trump and Moon is quite interesting. 
> 
> For those who would like access to the full databases, we set up a 
> Harvard Dataverse: 
> https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/focusdataproject. 
> 
> We are adding similar data for state media and foreign ministry 
> postings from China, Russia, and Iran. The project and affiliated 
> website (https://focusdataproject.com/) are new and just emerging 
> from beta; please let me know of any technical or related issues. 
> 
> Happy to answer any questions. A colleague and I will also be 
> presenting (virtually, unfortunately) on the databases and associated 
> methodology at APSA in September. 
> 
> Be well,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> Scott Fisher, PhD
> Assistant Professor, Professional Security Studies
> New Jersey City University
> sfisher1 at njcu.edu 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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