[KS] KCNA and Rodong Sinmun Article Data

[Scott Fisher]

 Hi Frank,

Are you on our website, or the Harvard site? For our site I checked and
everything seems to be working: https://focusdataproject.com/north-korea/.
>From the screenshot it looks like it might be the Harvard site. For that
one you need to request access to the files, then once we hit approve you
can download the files as spreadsheets.

Hope this helps. Thanks for the email.

Scott


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 PM Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreanstudies.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________
> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreanstudies.com
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