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VisitCATMA vs Taguette
What both publish
| Fact | CATMA | Taguette |
|---|---|---|
| Collaboration | Projects support synchronized and latest-contributions viewing modes, roles, permissions and collaborative comments. | Users can collaborate on projects when using the hosted service or a self-hosted server; desktop mode is single-user. |
| Exports | CATMA documents, annotations, tagsets, metadata and identities can be exported, including through TEI-XML. | Taguette can export projects, codebooks, highlights, and highlighted documents in formats including QDC, CSV, XLSX, DOCX, HTML, and PDF, depending on the export. |
| Intended users | CATMA describes itself as designed for qualitative text studies, with a focus on literary studies, rather than massive-scale quantitative or statistical text mining. | The maker describes Taguette as a tool for qualitative research, including fields such as anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, and marketing. |
| Purpose | CATMA supports computer-assisted text markup and analysis, including annotation, analysis, interpretation, and visualization. | Taguette is a free, open-source qualitative research tool for importing materials, highlighting and tagging text, and exporting results. |
| Support | The FAQ asks users who need help to contact the CATMA team, which says it will respond as soon as possible. | Users can request help by email or submit GitLab issues, and the maker notes that the team does not work on Taguette full-time. |
CATMA plans
- CATMAFree
- Public CATMA instanceFree
Taguette plans
- TaguetteFree
Pick CATMA if…
CATMA suits researchers and teams conducting qualitative text studies, especially literary studies, who need flexible annotation and visual analysis. It can also suit users who want locally hosted access or programmatic access to project data.
Pick Taguette if…
Taguette suits researchers who need to tag and export text from documents, including those in anthropology, education, nursing, psychology, sociology, or marketing. Teams can collaborate through the hosted service or a self-hosted server; desktop mode is for one user.