Aesthetic Trends and Semantic Web Adoption of Media Outlets Identified through Automated Archival Data Extraction

This dataset includes a variety of structured data gathered via various Web data extraction techniques which were employed in order to collect current and archival data from almost a thousand news websites that are popular in Greece, for the purpose of monitoring and recording their progress through time. The collected information, that took the form of a website’s source code and an impression of their homepage in different time instances of the last decade, has been used to identify trends concerning Semantic Web integration, DOM structure complexity, number of graphics, color usage and more. In total more than ten thousands impressions (including screenshots and source code) were analyzed which resulted to conclusions regarding the evolution of aesthetics and the adoption of new technologies.