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ContactPCAT ingests bulk downloads from the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS)
A core function of PCAT is to ingest archives (ex., .zip files) that contain bulk downloads from the US Federal Docket Management System (FDMS). PCAT also handles collections of e-mails bulk exported from Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, or other email clients. There are also XML, Microsoft Excel, CAT-style, and generic .csv file ingest options.
Two key questions
Where do I get FDMS bulk downloads? |
How do I upload non-FDMS datasets?Three simple steps to ingest your archive
Once you have created a project, click the "
Import Archive" button on the Project Management page. "
FDMS Archive File" is the default on the drop-down menu (these are "bulk downloads from
Regulations.Gov), but you can also upload CAT-style datasets, .txt, .csv, .xls, XML and RSS files. You have the option to name your archive, otherwise it will use the file name. Click on the "
Upload" button.
Any text dataset
properly formatted (.txt, XML, HTML) can be uploaded in the PCAT system.
Most Frequently Asked Questions
Why would I use this system? |
Where do I get FDMS bulk downloads? |
Does PCAT identify duplicates? |
What is QDAP?
© 2009 - 2010
Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), in the
University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the
University of Pittsburgh, and
QDAP-UMass, in the
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. As of 2010, PCAT and this PCAT Help Wiki are maintained and improved by personnel from
Texifter, LLC, which is a software start-up located in North Amherst & Springfield, MA and online at
http://texifter.com/.
Content on this website was made possible with the following grants from the National Science Foundation:
III-0705566 "Collaborative Research III-COR: From a Pile of Documents to a Collection of Information: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Text Analysis" and
IIS-0429293 "Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking." We are also grateful for financial support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. **Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.**
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