GDELT Interface for Communication Research (iCoRe)

This project introduces the interface for Communication Research (iCoRe) to access, explore, and analyze the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT; Leetaru & Schrodt, 2013). GDELT provides a vast, open source, and constantly updated repository of online news and event metadata collected from tens of thousands of news outlets around the world. Despite GDELT’s promise for advancing communication science, its massive scale and complex data structures have hindered efforts of communication scholars aiming to access and analyze GDELT. We thus developed iCoRe, an easy-to-use web interface that (a) provides fast access to the data available in GDELT (b) shapes and processes GDELT for theory-driven applications within communication research and (c) enables replicability through transparent query and analysis protocols.

本课题推出了通信研究（iCoRe）的接口，旨在访问、探索和分析全球事件、语言与语调数据库（GDELT；Leetaru & Schrodt, 2013）。GDELT数据库汇聚了来自全球数以万计新闻媒体的在线新闻和事件元数据，是一个规模庞大、开源且持续更新的资源库。尽管GDELT数据库在推进通信科学领域具有巨大潜力，但其庞大的规模和复杂的数据结构，却成为通信学者们访问和分析GDELT数据库的障碍。为此，我们开发了iCoRe，一个易于使用的网络界面，该界面（a）为用户提供了对GDELT数据库中数据的快速访问；（b）对GDELT数据库进行塑形和预处理，以适应通信研究中的理论驱动型应用；（c）通过透明的查询和分析协议，实现研究结果的复现性。