GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created.
Yes, REALLY Big!
GDELT is 100 percent free, with the entire dataset available for immediate download and a set of tools available to work with it.
Creating a platform that monitors the world’s news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every dayand that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates, required an unprecedented array of technical and methodological innovations, partnerships, and whole new mindsets to bring this all together and make it a reality.
[The GDELT Project]Creating a database of a quarter billion georeferenced records covering the entire world over 30 years, coupled with the massive networks that connect all of the people, organizations, locations, themes, and emotions underlying those events, required not only solving unparalleled challenges to create the database, but also a “reimagining” of how we interact and think about societal-scale data.
A truly fine example of what Australian publishing can produce, saw first-light in the last few weeks.
Great Ocean Quarterly
Our copy of Great Ocean Quarterly was awaited with considerable anticipation [caveat – we know some of those involved]. It arrived recently.
Members of my family have that close, often jealousy-viewed-by-others connection with the sea.
The Great Ocean Quarterly promised…
a collection of the most interesting, stirring, informative and beautiful work from along our coasts.
This was enough for us to subscribe, sight-unseen.
The launch edition of this innovative and ethereally exacting journal delivered on the promise..Interesting? most definitely, informative? for sure.. beautiful and stirring ? Well, many promise, few deliver.
The foundation subscription rates proved to be spectacular value for money. I have my Christmas presents all worked out!
The quality and attention to detail in such a new magazine, for such a group of writers, publishers and generally the sea-going, is nothing short of world-class. The dimensions, layout and use of quality stock sets a nice benchmark and raises expectations for subscribers.
The heart of the publication, its content, stories, art-work, yes even the advertising, resonates with quality and coherence that is refreshing.
