Barrapunto Online Conversation Threads (Jan 2005–Dec 2007)
A Barrapunto (the Spanish Slashdot) dataset of 7,724 discussion threads, 2005-2007, from the Online Conversation Threads repository of Aragón et al. (ICWSM 2017): 172,132 nodes (articles and comments) and 169,825 comment-to-parent reply edges, with comment text, moderation scores, timestamps and thread depth. Suitable for online discourse analysis, conversation dynamics and hierarchical reply-tree structure.
Cite this dataset at
barrapunto-conversations.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 172,132 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 195.3K records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
barrapunto-conversations- Authors
- Gómez, Vicenç; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas; Laniado, David
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- The Online Conversation Threads Repository (Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia Talk)
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.5281/zenodo.165404
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 172,132
- Nodes
- 172,132
- Edges
- 169,825
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- es
- Collected
- 2005-01/2007-12 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Spain · Europe (inferred: the platform is used mostly there)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/165404 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 105.8 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404,
doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.165404},
url = {https://zenodo.org/record/165404},
author = {Gómez, Vicenç and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Laniado, David},
keywords = {Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia, Conversation threads},
title = {The Online Conversation Threads Repository (Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia Talk)},
publisher = {Zenodo},
year = {2008},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Gómez, V., Kaltenbrunner, A., & Laniado, D. (2008). Barrapunto Online Conversation Threads (Jan 2005–Dec 2007) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Gómez, Vicenç, et al. Barrapunto Online Conversation Threads (Jan 2005–Dec 2007). 2008, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404.