The Cline Center Historical Phoenix Event Data covers the period 1945-2019 and includes 8.2 million events extracted from 21.2 million news stories. This data was produced using the state-of-the-art PETRARCH-2 software to analyze content from the New York Times (1945-2018), the BBC Monitoring's Summary of World Broadcasts (1979-2019), the Wall Street Journal (1945-2005), and the Central Intelligence Agency’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1995-2004). It documents the agents, locations, and issues at stake in a wide variety of conflict, cooperation and communicative events in the Conflict and Mediation Event Observations (CAMEO) ontology.

The Cline Center produced these data with the generous support of Linowes Fellow and Faculty Affiliate Prof. Dov Cohen and help from our academic and private sector collaborators in the Open Event Data Alliance (OEDA).

For details on the CAMEO framework, see:
Schrodt, Philip A., Omür Yilmaz, Deborah J. Gerner, and Dennis Hermreck. "The CAMEO (conflict and mediation event observations) actor coding framework." In 2008 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. 2008. http://eventdata.parusanalytics.com/papers.dir/APSA.2005.pdf

Gerner, D.J., Schrodt, P.A. and Yilmaz, O., 2012. Conflict and mediation event observations (CAMEO) Codebook. http://eventdata.parusanalytics.com/cameo.dir/CAMEO.Ethnic.Groups.zip

For more information about PETRARCH and OEDA, see: http://openeventdata.org/