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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 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.  
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This wiki provides a beginner's guide to AmCAT.   
 
This wiki provides a beginner's guide to AmCAT.   
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'''To do:''' Het principe van AmCAT in een paar zinnen vatten (ter vervanging van de derde alinea hierboven "The AmCAT system ... - ... to be useful").
  
 
== Getting started with AmCAT ==
 
== Getting started with AmCAT ==
  
Why don't you take a [[3.3:Quick Tour|Quick Tour]] of AmCAT functions?
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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:
 
When you're ready to get started with AmCAT, follow these steps to get set up:
  
# [[3.3:Account|Create an account]] so you can log in
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# [[Account|Create an account]] so you can log in
# [[3.3:Create a project|Create a project]]
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# [[Create a project]]
# [[3.3:Upload articles|Upload articles]] to a project
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# [[Upload articles]] to a project
  
 
== Using AmCAT ==
 
== Using AmCAT ==
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AmCAT can be used in a variety of ways:
 
AmCAT can be used in a variety of ways:
  
* [[3.3:Querying|Querying article sets]] to get an overview of your data, perform automatic quantitative content analysis based on keywords or to select and save a set of articles for further analysis  
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* [[Querying|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  
* [[3.3:Annotation|Manual annotation]] of articles
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* [[Annotation|Manual annotation]] of articles
* Use the [[3.3:Annotator|Annotator]] to code articles
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== Improving AmCAT ==
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AmCAT is an open source project that depends on its community for success. Here's what you can do to help improve AmCAT:
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* Edit this wiki: Improve the documentation on this site by editing this wiki: improve articles to correct mistakes, or clarify things, etc.
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* Report problems, bugs, and great feature ideas on our [http://github.com/amcat/amcat/issues issue tracker] ([http://github.com/join Github account required])
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* Test new versions of AmCAT on [http://preview.amcat.nl preview.amcat.nl]
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* [http://github.com/amcat/amcat Download the source code], setup your own server, clone it, and send us your improvements as pull requests!
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