Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA): An Event Typology for Automated Events Data Development
| Author | Joe Bond,Churl Oh,Charles Lewis Taylor,Doug Bond,J. Craig Jenkins |
| Published date | 01 November 2003 |
| Date | 01 November 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/00223433030406009 |
| Subject Matter | Journal Article |
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Introduction
Event analysis has a long, rich history in
international conflict research but, in the
past few decades, it has been bypassed in
favor of simpler methods focusing on general
conditions (e.g. the presence of armed
conflict) and institutional standards (e.g.
human rights protections). This has been
due to two problems: (1) the difficulty of
generating large amounts of high-quality
data; and (2) limitations in traditional events
frameworks, which have had an inflexible
structure and lacked analytic dimensions
that could be used for early warning and
assessing conflict escalation. The first
problem has been addressed by the develop-
ment of automated coding through such
systems as the Kansas Events Data System
(KEDS), its successor TABARI (Textual
Analysis By Augmented Replacement
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Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA):
An Event Typology for Automated Events Data
Development*
DOUG BOND, JOE BOND, CHURL OH
Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, Harvard University
J. CRAIG JENKINS
Mershon Center for International Security, Ohio State University
CHARLES LEWIS TAYLOR
Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
This article outlines the basic parameters and current status of the Integrated Data for Event Analysis
(IDEA) project. IDEA provides a comprehensive events framework for the analysis of international
interactions by supplementing the event forms from all earlier projects with new event forms needed
to monitor contemporary trends in civil and interstate politics. It uses a more flexible multi-leveled
event and actor/target hierarchy that can be expanded to incorporate new event forms and
actors/targets, and adds dimensions that can be employed to construct indicators for early warning and
assessing conflict escalation. IDEA is currently being used in the automated coding of news reports
(Reuters Business Briefs) and, in collaboration with other projects, in the analysis of field reports. The
article summarizes the conceptual framework being used in this data development effort, its major vari-
ables, and its geographic and temporal coverage.
* A revised version of a paper originally presented at
Uppsala University, Sweden, 8–9 June 2001. See
http://www.pcr.uu.se. The authors gratefully acknowledge
the collegial support the KEDS/TABARI group generously
offered throughout our long and fruitful collaboration.
Correspondence: dbond@wcfia.harvard.edu.
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