Please register for Public Comment Analysis Toolkit - Free Online Training - Friday, December 18, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST at: https://student.gototraining.com/6gy79/register/3581852730072417814 The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is Web-based, university-hosted software engineered for the specific task of reviewing public comments submitted via the Federal Docket Management System. PCAT is actually version 2.0 of the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), therefore it is also useful for sorting all kinds of CAT-style datasets. If you have lots of digitized text, you can form a team of peers, create a project, upload data, discover important themes and issues, and organize your analysis with PCAT. This system is the end product of ten years of NSF-funded public comment classification work by Dr. Stuart W. Shulman, who has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on the subject. * The system is fast, secure and scalable. * This is currently a free service in beta testing based on award-winning research software. * It extends principles of efficiency, accuracy, validity, usability, and transparency. * It leverages a novel new approach to integrating credentials and distributed work flow. * It is equally useful to public and private actors and accessible to all. * It allows you to show or share your work with anyone on the system. * It deals a blow to the tyranny of carpel tunnel causing mouse-clicks. * It is very easy to learn and you can't break it. For more information: http://pcat-help.qdap.net/doku.php?id=home_page or just visit: http://pcat.qdap.net