About the workshop

Tired of wading through your research sources with titles like IMG_5264.JPG and IMG_5265? Spend more time using your research photos, and less time hunting for them with Tropy! Tropy is free and open-source software that helps researchers organize and describe their research photos. Tropy is developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, also the home of Zotero and Omeka. 

In this workshop, we will show you how to describe and organize research photo collections using Tropy. 

This is a hands-on workshop using Tropy to describe and organize a selection of photos from Special Collections and Rare Books (SCRB). The workshop will feature an introduction to the SCRB space and the finding aids you use for accessing items in Special Collections and Rare Books. This workshop will help you organize your own personal library of research photos. No digital experience needed for this workshop. 

 Requirements

• A laptop: Charged, if possible, as there is limited access to outlets.
• Tropy Software: Please download and install Tropy prior to attending the workshop