UFC specific contributions to the project

The scientific competences of the MSH cover the whole research activities for coordination. MSH technological platform structures a set of resources, essential to achieve the project: specialised equipments and computerized tools; methodological and technological competences; knowledge and digitized scientific information; on-line publishing services. It presents a set of specialised servers in order to meet the CAENTI needs in terms of mutualisation and cooperative treatment and publishing. They allow to federate and make visible the participants specific resources.

MSH hosts the territorial intelligence portal and support the Intranet and Internet services. It also hosts the scientific review ethnographiques.org (http://www.ethnographiques.org), which constitutes a reproducible experience of on-line publication.

Besides, their topics of scientific interest, UMR ThéMA and Chrono-écologie possess numerous know-how and technological resources with a strong interest on activities linked to fundamental tools methods and development that are accessible to the actors: cartography, software design, geographical information systems software, public policies evaluation, digital model of ground and teledetection, models of simulation, systemic approach, equipment, GPS cartography and graphics software.

The centre ThéMA-it gives to the CAENTI an original method of Territorial Intelligence: CATALYSE. It was initially conceived for participative evaluation within the framework of the struggle against poverty program “Poverty 3”, implemented from 1989 to 1993. Since 1994, CATALYSE have experienced numerous transfers concerning various thematics (inclusion, integration, territorial development) in different European areas. These transfers allowed testing evaluation tools and observation that facilitate local actor mobilization, territorial diagnosis, people follow-up and indicators choice . Used by all the members of the project, the CATALYSE method based the development of an accessible toolkit for actors.

The technological and real multifaceted skills of ISTI strengthen the CAENTI's technological skills. ThéMA-it centre coordinated the SITRA action within the ISTI. SITRA on-line territorial models, friendly and accessible information systems: modelling systems of numeric geo-positioned resources and information streams generated by users' networks; data analysis and on-line data-mining; tools' conviviality and information accessibility; on-line publishing of cartography tools and geo-referenced information systems; use of textual analysis and infometry to facilitate the user's needs analysis and navigation. It constitutes the basis to develop the scientific and professional on-line Territorial Intelligence tools.