Published January 10, 2023 | Version v1
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SDG Knowledge Hub Dataset of SDG-labeled News Articles

  • 1. University of Basel & Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  • 2. University of Basel

Description

Dataset of articles published on the IISD SDG Knowledge Hub (sdg.iisd.org). The SDG Knowledge Hub is an online resource publishing news and commentary regarding the implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Labels assigned by the authors and validated by SDG Knowledge Hub editors indicate which of the 17 SDGs an article addresses.

The data set was generated for the following publications. Please consider citing the publication if you use the data. 

Wulff, D. U., Meier, D. S., & Mata, R. (2023). Using novel data and ensemble models to improve automated labeling of Sustainable Development Goals. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11353.

The data contain 9,172 articles downloaded on September 15th, 2021, and are shared with permission from the SDG Knowledge Hub.

The comma-separated data file includes the following columns:

url - URL of the article.

title - Title of the article.

type - Type of article. Either "News", "Policy briefs", "Guest articles", or "Generation 30". 

text - Text of the article. 

date - Publishing date of article.

sdgs - SDG labels assigned by authors and editors. 

SDG-01 to SDG-17 - SDG indicators extracted from the author and editor label.  

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