EOS: A multilingual text archive of international newspaper & blog articles

The Expandable Open Source (EOS) database maintains an archive of Internet accessible newspaper and blog articles from across the world. Today, the archive contains over 700 million articles and is growing by approximately 100,000 articles each day. In this work, we describe the components of EOS, our community of data users and data providers, some real world use cases, challenges associated with maintaining this archive, and a vision for its future as a text analytic portal.