SDG Knowledge Hub Dataset of SDG-labeled News Articles

The SDG Knowledge Hub Dataset contains 9,172 news articles and policy briefs published on the IISD SDG Knowledge Hub platform. Articles are labeled by authors and editors to indicate which of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals they address. The dataset was created by researchers at the University of Basel and shared with permission from the SDG Knowledge Hub.

Use Cases

• Training multi-label text classifiers based on the SDG labels assigned to articles.
• Analyzing trends in media coverage of specific Sustainable Development Goals based on article dates and labels.
• Benchmarking automated labeling systems for policy documents based on the author and editor-assigned SDG indicators.
• Studying the distribution of article types (News, Policy briefs, Guest articles) across different development goals.

Strengths

• Contains 9,172 articles with human-validated SDG labels.
• Includes multiple article types such as 'News', 'Policy briefs', 'Guest articles', and 'Generation 30'.
• Provides both a composite 'sdgs' label column and individual indicator columns for each SDG (SDG-01 to SDG-17).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect the editorial focus and potential biases of the single source platform, the IISD SDG Knowledge Hub.

Provenance

Source

IISD SDG Knowledge Hub (sdg.iisd.org)

Collection Method

Articles were downloaded on September 15th, 2021, with labels assigned by authors and validated by editors.

Time Range

Articles published up to September 15, 2021.