After a first desktop software project named Tinasoft (2009-2011) which aimed to empower the European commission with new tools of socio-semantic mapping for project management, I launched with Alexandre Delanoë the Gargantext platform in 2013, an online webservice for collaborative text-mining and mapping.

The first released was aired on Dec. 2015 and the platform has been in production since, with today several hundreds of users from academia and beyond.

GarganText features a number of methods I’ve developed such as specific mapping methods and the phylomemy reconstruction.

This CNRS Sciences Sociale project was initially supported by the IDEFI Forcast, the CSI and Institut Pasteur. Today, it is endorsed and deployed by a large number of stakeholder such as the Institut Mines-Telecom, la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, INSERM, the French National Library (BNF), the CNES,  The Forum for Information and Democracy.

A showcase of maps made with GarganText is available here.