[KS] KCNA and Rodong Sinmun Article Data

[Frank Hoffmann]

Hi Scott:

Indeed, I am just soooo slow. My apologies. You don't actually 
collected those articles from their Website/s to put them in a DB, 
allowing us to search and read them -- instead you pushed all text, 
into a simple DB, ordered by date, and then allow searches for phrases 
and/or words. The output is a word count that is being graphically 
displayed on a timeline worksheet.

Got confused as this is a Korean Studies list, had not expected this.

Thanks Scott.

Best,
Frank


On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:37:16 -0400, Scott Fisher wrote:
>  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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