ad data resources

http://wiscadproject.wisc.edu/project.php

"CMAG provides two different forms of data that are used in this project. First, for every political ad produced, CMAG creates a storyboard, including a complete transcript of all audio and a still capture of every fourth second of video. These storyboards enable us to undertake an extensive coding exercise: A team of graduate and undergraduate students code the content of each of these storyboards on a wide range of topics, ranging from the spot’s main objective to its tone, the issues discussed, and even the characterizations used to describe candidates."

This project was for 2008, and some prior election cycles. Does not appear that there will be 2012 coverage, but it does include precise description of how ads were logged.

http://election-ad.research.wesleyan.edu/

Wisconsin project moved here for 2010. Wesleyan will host 2012 data as well. They are working on it and will post it in a few months. Got email reply from: Michael Franz.

http://sunlightcam.com/browse Sunlight Campaign Ad Monitor. This page allows you to download details on ads IDed by viewers. We can think of this as a possible tie in for a phase 2 capacity to enter ad data for our tool.

http://kantarmediana.com/cmag

if we wanted to pay for clean, nice ad data. we should find someone who pays for this and will let us sync with them.

example usage agreement: wiscadproject.wisc.edu/Use%20Agreement.pdf

http://poligraft.com/ uses api calls to http://www.opencalais.com/APIkey and looks them up on other sights, such as those used by https://github.com/sunlightlabs/brisket/blob/master/influence/external_sites.py