During 2021 we have added a new filter in the media archive based on topics. The function appears in the left filter menu after you have done a search and got a result.
Click on the topic category that is relevant for your search to see articles tagged with that specific topic. This filter is handy to use when you want to narrow down your search within a certain topic or subject and get more relevant hits. You can choose one or more topics from the list.
The topics that Retriever uses follow the international standard classification scheme provided by the International Press and Telecommunications Council, IPTC for news agencies and other media companies. There are 17 top categories which we use:
arts, culture and entertainment
crime, law and justice
disaster and accident
economy, business and finance
education
environmental issue
health
human interest
labour
lifestyle and leisure
politics
religion and belief
science and technology
social issue
sport
unrest, conflicts and war
weather
The categorization is done by an automatic system that collects key words from the articles to decide which topics are represented in the text. One article can be tagged with several different topics. Please note that the process does not contain any manual editing, so there can be a small amount of wrongly categorized articles.
