archive of kek-online.de
The Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK), collects and publishes shareholding information about german newspapers, radio and tv stations and online services.
This archive stores a daily snapshot of their undocumented json web API. The files are:
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docs/data/media.json(from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/media/)This is a list of all medias in the KEK database.
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docs/data/shareholders.json(from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/shareholders/)That's the list of all shareholders and operators/publishers.
All media and shareholders are identified by UUIDs and more detailed information for each entity is available in the following files:
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docs/data/media/5be1a6b1-0a0b-42ac-b845-1914e17d572f.json(from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/media/5be1a6b1-0a0b-42ac-b845-1914e17d572f)- ...
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docs/data/shareholders/5be1a6b6-0a00-491b-9229-bfd0da590573.json(from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/shareholders/5be1a6b6-0a00-491b-9229-bfd0da590573)- ...
All data is copyright: Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK).
To build the complete graph of shareholders and media, you need
to parse the individual files in docs/data/shareholders/ or load
the docs/data/graph.dot file. The dot format for graphs is
widely supported, for example by:
- The Graphviz commandline tools
- The igraph library for R, Python, Mathematica and C
- The vis.js library for Javascript
- The Gephi application for Mac, Windows and Linux
From my experience, the fastest way of layouting the graph is Gephi: Load the dot file, select "ForceAtlas2" in the "Layouter" and "run" the thing.