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AmCAT Navigator

The Amsterdam Content Analysis Toolkit (AmCAT) is a free open source infrastructure that makes it easy to conduct large-scale automatic and manual content analysis (text analysis) for the social sciences and humanities. AmCAT aims to make manual and automatic content analysis of various types of texts more easy and accessible. AmCAT improves the use and the standard of content analysis in the social sciences and humanities, and stimulates the sharing of data and analyses.

The AmCAT system was designed to make it easier to manage (large) content analysis projects. Documents being one of the essential ingredients, an essential aspect of AmCAT is the storing, viewing, and managing of documents from various sources. The data are stored in a standard database, to which every user has access for his/her own projects. The source code for the scripts and website are open source, so everyone is free to setup his/her own server. The system is designed to make it easy to integrate new analyses, through the website, web services, or through direct access. AmCAT is designed as an open system, herewith encouraging users to contribute to AmCAT. The AmCAT designers have tried to make it easy to add functionality, such as upload or scrape scripts or analyses, by using as open standards where applicable and by using a plugin-structure in the places where they expect extensions to be useful.

This wiki provides a beginner's guide to AmCAT.

Getting started with AmCAT

Why don't you take a Quick Tour of AmCAT functions?

When you're ready to get started with AmCAT, follow these steps to get set up:

1. Create an account so you can log in
2. Create a project
3. Upload articles to a project

Using AmCAT

AmCAT can be used in a variety of ways:

• Querying article sets to get an overview of your data, perform quantitative content analysis based on keywords or to select and save a set of articles for further analysis
• Manual annotation of articles
• ...

Improving AmCAT

AmCAT is an open source project that depends on its community for success. Here's what you can do to help improve AmCAT:

• Edit this wiki: Improve the documentation on this site by editing this wiki: improve articles to correct mistakes, or clarify things, etc.
• Report problems, bugs, and great feature ideas on our issue tracker (Github account required)
• Download the source code, setup your own server, clone it, and send us your improvements as pull requests!