I’ve been working on a dataset for a research project on how China is portrayed in the media. It currently contains just over 10,000 news articles from both Chinese and Western news outlets.
Each article is classified by topic and by the way China is portrayed (e.g. positive, negative, threat, Xi-centered, neutral, etc.). The dataset was originally created for academic research, but I’m now wondering whether it could also have commercial value.
I’m not trying to sell it here, just looking for advice. Has anyone here ever licensed or sold a specialized dataset like this? Who would actually be interested in buying it? AI companies, media intelligence firms, universities, think tanks…? Or are datasets like this generally expected to be open source?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience commercializing niche datasets or knows how this market works.
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