Do you return from research trips to special collections, museums, archives, or other sites with cluttered folders of digital photographs? Do you work with patrons looking for help organizing and tracking these collections? Are you interested in how personal digital asset management can provide a path into digital scholarship?

Tropy is free and open-source software to help researchers organize and describe their research photos. Flexible enough to describe photos of anything, and robust enough to manage thousands of photos at once, Tropy allows researchers to bring order to their research. This workshop will teach you about Tropy and offer ideas for how to teach it to others.

Tropy comes to us from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, also the home of Zotero and Omeka, and promises to be a leap forward for historians, librarians, archivists, researchers, and collections managers. 

Join us for a hands-on session led by Dr. Abby Mullen, Assistant Professor at George Mason University and Tropy PI.

This event is sponsored locally by the University Libraries, the Melvin G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the Center of Digital Humanities Research.

At the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Identify common problems in describing and organizing personal research photo collections

• Use Tropy to describe and organize their personal library of research photos; or advise and train others to use Tropy