Technical Report: Incorporating Blogs in Pollux
Abstract: This technical report describes the incorporation of political blogs into Pollux, the Specialised Information Service (FID) for Political Science in Germany. Considering the widespread use of political blogs in political science research, we decided to include them in the Pollux search system to enhance the available information infrastructure. We describe the crawling and analyzing of the blogs and the pipeline that integrates them into the Pollux system. To demonstrate the content of the incorporated blogs, we also provide a visualization of the topics covered by the blog posts during the first three months following integration.
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