Niconico Nicovideo: Japanese Video Sharing Service Content

Niconico Video is a Japanese video sharing service that began in 2006. The dataset is hosted by DSULT-Core and was last updated on July 2, 2025. It likely contains video content from the platform, including the first video ever posted, identified as 'sm9'.

Use Cases

• Analyze video content and metadata from a major Japanese video sharing service.
• Study the evolution of user-generated content based on the platform's history since 2006.
• Train models for video classification or recommendation using data from Niconico.

Strengths

• Dataset references the first video ('sm9') ever posted on the platform, providing a historical anchor point.
• Last updated metadata is precise, recorded as 2025-07-02 09:31:04.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Niconico (formerly Niconico Douga), a Japanese video sharing service operated by Dwango.

Time Range

Platform service began in 2006; specific dataset temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-07-02 09:31:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Japan (inferred from platform origin and primary user base).