To make tools that are accessible and useful for actors, Catalyse adapts fundamental methods and generic tools of wide-applicability.

They are methods of statistical and spatial analysis of data, management and evaluation protocols, knowledge bases; systems of scientific and technical edition, geographical information systems that use the information and communication technologies.

Catalyse especially uses the friendly software that are designed for the researchers in humanities and in social sciences and that were made by the TheMA research team in Territorial Intelligence:

The Catalyse Community website allows downloading existing and validated tools.

The harmonization of the European Catalyse observatories is made in the caENTI framework (www.territorial-intelligence.eu/caenti/).

Learn more

• Specifications for the “PRAGMA” data collection and quantitative treatment software
• Conceptual and methodological specifications for a Territorial Information Community System, including technical specifications for integration of “PRAGMA” with the software of qualitative data analysis “ANACONDA” and “NUAGE”