Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT Project)

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT Project) monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
Citation
Title Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT Project)
alternateTitle  GDELT Project
publication  Date   1979-01-01
Topic Category:  economy,environment,farming,health,intelligenceMilitary,society,structure,transportation,utilitiesCommunication
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
gdelt
WWHGD
geospatial
event data
knowledge graph
Location keywords:
world
global
purpose:
The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT Project) monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
Resource language:  eng;USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
BoundingPolygonpolygon
Temporal Extent
ground condition 1979-01-01 9999-99-99
Additional information on resource:
Geospatial data uses centroid coordinates per http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/leetaru/09leetaru.html|||||
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Kalev Leetaru
organisation Name  GDELT Project
position Name GDELT Project
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 555-555-5555
Fax 
Address
http://gdeltproject.org/, NA, NA, NA Country USA
electronic Mail Address kalev.leetaru5@gmail.com
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Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  GDELT Project
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 555-555-5555
Fax 
Address
http://gdeltproject.org/, NA, NA, NA Country USA
electronic Mail Address kalev.leetaru5@gmail.com
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://gdeltproject.org/
protocol http
Format
Format name CSV
Format version 
file Decompression Technique  ZIP
Digital Transfer Options
transfer Size 100000
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://gdeltproject.org/
protocol http

Metadata data stamp:  2014-05-19
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name GDELT Project
organisation Name  GDELT Project
position Name GDELT Project
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 555-555-5555
Fax 
Address
http://gdeltproject.org/, NA, NA, NA Country USA
electronic Mail Address kalev.leetaru5@gmail.com
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  metadata.xml

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)