Coding schemes or 'Codingschemas' as they are called in AmCAT, consist of variables and their possible values that are used for coding articles manually on the article or sentence level, in the annotator. These two types of schemes (articleschemas and unitschemas) look a bit different in use, but they are created in a similar way.
- Go to ‘Coding Schemas’ in the ‘Coding’ dropdown menu, and there click on ‘New schema’ to create a new coding scheme.
- First, give the schema a name and a description, and choose whether it is used for codings on the article or on the sentence level. The default is a unitschema, for sentence level codings. If you want to make coding scheme for article level codings, tick the box for ‘Isarticleschema’.
- If you want to use a highlighter, select both the highlighter and the highlight language.
- Click Submit to create a new, empty coding scheme.
The next step is to fill the scheme with variables and attach codebooks to these variables. To do so, select ‘Edit fields’ to start adding variables.
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