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Figure 1.1 AmCAT Navigator Login Screen

An AmCAT project starts in the AmCAT Navigator (see Figure 1.1). You can log in at the AmCAT Navigator using your browser (e.g., Firefox, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer). Go to https://amcat.nl and log in to AmCAT. In order to be able to log in, you need to create an Account.

Figure 1.2 AmCAT Navigator Example Article Set

Logging in brings you to the AmCAT home page, where you click on the blue 'Manage Projects' button to go to the location where your AmCAT projects are stored. These can be your own project or the projects of other AmCAT users that allow you to have a guest role. If you want to start a new AmCAT project, the first step is Creating an AmCAT project and adding articles to this project. However, when the AmCAT project has already been created, you select the relevant project by clicking on the project name. Selecting a project brings you to the article sets (i.e. a collection of texts) this particular project contains. You can use each of your article sets separately or (selections of them) all together. On the AmCAT home page you can also find a number of public featured article sets you can use.

Figure 1.3 AmCAT Navigator Article Set Article Overview

As an example, we use an article set called 'Wikinews articles for terror*', an article set with all Wikinews articles including the word 'terror' from November 2004 until January 2015. As you can see in Figure 1.2, this article set includes 1406 articles. By clicking on the article set you will get an overview of all the articles in this set (see Figure 1.3). The overview shows you the (article)id, date, headline, mediumid, medium and lenght (in words) of each article in the article set. As you can see in Figure 1.3 (lower left corner), this article set includes a total of 1406 articles. You can click on any of these individual articles in this list, which directs you to the full lenght version of the article and a short list with article details. Before actually starting your content analysis, it is recommended that you first explore the articles in the article set by clicking on some of the articles in the set to get a good feel of the data you will be working with.