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| - | ===== PCAT Online Help ===== | + | **[[Home Page|Home]]** | [[create_a_new_account|Accounts]] | [[credentials|Credentials]] | [[form_a_peer_network|Peers]] | [[create_a_new_project|Projects]] | [[upload_fdms_public_comment_data|Upload]] | [[de-duplicate|De-duplicate]] | [[cluster|Cluster]] | [[View all archives|View]] | [[browse_an_archive|Browse]] | [[search_for_key_concepts|Search]] | [[create_buckets|Buckets]] | [[create_datasets|Datasets]] | [[assign_coders|Assign]] | [[notifications|Notifications]] | [[toolbox_functions|Toolbox]] | [[code_data|Code]] | [[work_with_memos|Bookmarks]] | [[validate_the_work_of_coders|Validate]] | [[generate_summary_reports|Report]] | [[faq|FAQ]] | [[Contact QDAP|Contact]]\\ |
| - | [[Home Page|Home]] | [[create_a_new_account|Accounts]] | [[credentials|Credentials]] | [[form_a_peer_network|Peers]] | [[upload_fdms_public_comment_data|Upload]] | [[View all archives|View]] | [[browse_an_archive|Browse]] | [[search_for_key_concepts|Search]] | [[create_buckets|Buckets]] | [[create_datasets|Datasets]] | [[assign_coders|Assign]] | [[toolbox_functions|Toolbox]] | [[code_data|Code]] | [[work_with_memos|Bookmarks]] | [[validate_the_work_of_coders|Validate]] | [[generate_summary_reports|Report]] | [[faq|FAQ]] | [[Contact QDAP|Contact]]\\ | + | ===== Welcome to the Public Comment Analysis Toolkit Help Wiki ===== |
| - | ==== Welcome to the PCAT Help Wiki ==== | + | The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is a cloud computing platform. It enables efficient and scalable Web-based collaborative text analysis. PCAT uses automation, clustering, search, peer networks, credentials, an internal architecture for evaluation, and a streamlined annotation work flow to improve human judgments about text. This initial version of the system is specifically tailored to handle many forms of public comments submitted to US federal agencies during regulatory rulemaking and related public comment-generating activities. PCAT is a customizable platform for accurate, reliable and valid classification of any digitized text collection. Single users, expert teams, and wider crowd-sourced groups can browse, search, sift, sort, annotate and report on large collections of text data. In PCAT, the owner of the data (the person who uploads it) has complete control over who in the system can see or work with any particular archive or dataset. The same is true of every aspect of an individual user's credentials. Each PCAT user decides whether and to what extent to be a part of PCAT' public Directory of Peers. The goal of the directory is to create a network of expert and lay users who can collaborate to share data, findings and annotations. \\ |
| - | This web site is a basic function guide for users of the [[http://www.pcat.qdap.net/|Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT)]]. Read the October 30, 2009 [[http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=launch_press_release|press release]] for the official PCAT launch. To test PCAT, please visit http://pcat.qdap.net. You can also watch [[http://www.screencast.com/t/ZWQ2ZmY3Y|online tutorial]]\\ | + | ==== Guide to the Basic PCAT Functions ==== |
| - | ==== Basic PCAT Functions ==== | + | |
| - [[Create a new account]]\\ | - [[Create a new account]]\\ | ||
| - [[credentials|Establish your credentials]] | - [[credentials|Establish your credentials]] | ||
| - | - [[Form a peer network]]\\ | + | - [[Form a peer network]]\\ |
| - | - [[Upload FDMS public comment data]]\\ | + | - [[Create a new project]]\\ |
| - | - [[Upload CAT-style datasets]]\\ | + | - [[Upload FDMS public comment data|Upload FDMS public comment or other text data]]\\ |
| - | - [[Upload Wordpress 2.0 RSS Feed]]\\ | + | - [[de-duplicate|De-duplicate an archive]]\\ |
| - | - [[View all archives]]\\ | + | - [[cluster|Create clusters of similar comments]]\\ |
| + | - [[View all archives|View archives that you have permission to work with]]\\ | ||
| - [[Browse an archive]]\\ | - [[Browse an archive]]\\ | ||
| - [[Search for key concepts]]\\ | - [[Search for key concepts]]\\ | ||
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| - [[Work with memos|Work with bookmarks]]\\ | - [[Work with memos|Work with bookmarks]]\\ | ||
| - [[Validate the work of coders]]\\ | - [[Validate the work of coders]]\\ | ||
| - | - [[Generate summary reports]]\\ | + | - [[Generate summary reports]]\\ |
| + | ==== Background Information ==== | ||
| + | * **Read** the [[http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=launch_press_release|press release]] from the official PCAT launch\\ | ||
| + | * **Visit** http://pcat.qdap.net to register for a free account\\ | ||
| + | * **Watch** the [[http://www.screencast.com/t/NjIwMmM5NT|online tutorial]] (updated May 28, 2010)\\ | ||
| ==== Most Frequently Asked Questions ==== | ==== Most Frequently Asked Questions ==== | ||
| [[Why would I use this system?]] | [[Where do I get FDMS bulk downloads?]] | [[Does PCAT identify duplicates?]] | [[What is QDAP?]]\\ | [[Why would I use this system?]] | [[Where do I get FDMS bulk downloads?]] | [[Does PCAT identify duplicates?]] | [[What is QDAP?]]\\ | ||
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| - | [[http://www.pcat.qdap.net/|{{:pcatneweyeslongblue241x45.png|}}]] [[http://pcat.qdap.net|pcat.qdap.net]] | + | ---- |
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| - | © 2009 - [[http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/|Qualitative Data Analysis Program]] (QDAP), in the [[http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/index.php|University Center for Social and Urban Research]], at the [[http://www.pitt.edu|University of Pittsburgh]], and | + | © 2009 - 2010 [[http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/|Qualitative Data Analysis Program]] (QDAP), in the [[http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/index.php|University Center for Social and Urban Research]], at the [[http://www.pitt.edu|University of Pittsburgh]], and |
| - | + | [[http://www.umass.edu/qdap/|QDAP-UMass]], in the [[http://www.umass.edu/sbs/|College of Social and Behavioral Sciences]], at the [[http://umass.edu/|University of Massachusetts Amherst]]. As of 2010, PCAT and this PCAT Help Wiki are maintained and improved by personnel from [[http://texifter.com|Texifter, LLC]], which is a software start-up located in North Amherst & Springfield, MA and online at http://texifter.com.\\ | |
| - | [[http://www.umass.edu/qdap/|QDAP-UMass]], in the [[http://www.umass.edu/sbs/|College of Social and Behavioral Sciences]], at the [[http://umass.edu/|University of Massachusetts Amherst]]. | + | \\ |
| - | + | Content on this website was made possible with the following grants from the National Science Foundation: [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0917773|III-0705566]] "Collaborative Research III-COR: From a Pile of Documents to a Collection of Information: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Text Analysis" and [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0429293|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.**\\ | |
| - | 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. | + | ---- |
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| + | **[[Home Page|Home]]** | [[create_a_new_account|Accounts]] | [[credentials|Credentials]] | [[form_a_peer_network|Peers]] | [[create_a_new_project|Projects]] | [[upload_fdms_public_comment_data|Upload]] | [[de-duplicate|De-duplicate]] | [[cluster|Cluster]] | [[View all archives|View]] | [[browse_an_archive|Browse]] | [[search_for_key_concepts|Search]] | [[create_buckets|Buckets]] | [[create_datasets|Datasets]] | [[assign_coders|Assign]] | [[notifications|Notifications]] | [[toolbox_functions|Toolbox]] | [[code_data|Code]] | [[work_with_memos|Bookmarks]] | [[validate_the_work_of_coders|Validate]] | [[generate_summary_reports|Report]] | [[faq|FAQ]] | [[Contact QDAP|Contact]]\\ | ||