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This web site is a basic function guide for users of the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT). Read the October 30, 2009 press release for the official PCAT launch. To test PCAT, please visit http://pcat.qdap.net. You can also watch online tutorial

1. Create a new account
   
2. Establish your credentials
3. Form a peer network
   
4. Upload FDMS public comment data
   
5. Upload CAT-style datasets
   
6. Upload Wordpress 2.0 RSS Feed
   
7. View all archives
   
8. Browse an archive
   
9. Search for key concepts
   
10. Create buckets
    
11. Create datasets
    
12. Assign coders
    
13. Additional toolbox features
    
14. Code your data
    
15. Work with bookmarks
    
16. Validate the work of coders
    
17. Generate summary reports
    

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© 2009 - 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.

This project was initiated during the fall 1999 semester and the 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,” IIS-0429293 “Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking,” EIA-00328914 “SGER COLLABORATIVE: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data,” SES-0322662 “Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Comparing Traditional vs. Electronic Comment from a Discursive Democratic Framework,“ and EIA-0089892 “SGER: Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public Commentary.” 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.