Technology

  • 4/14 Tropy Workshop | Managing Research Photos

    Tropy is a free, open-source tool that allows historians and other humanities researchers to organize and describe photos of their archival research materials. Through its intuitive user interface, researchers can add metadata to images as well as combine, sort, annotate and edit their images.  

    This session will cover:  

    • Basic features and uses of Tropy, including starting a new project, adding and editing photos 
    • Working with metadata templates 
    • Organizing items within a project 
    When: Friday, April 14, 2023, 3pm - 4pm
    Where: Online - register here

    Before you attend: Please download Tropy or update to the current release on their device beforehand. Attendees are welcome to select some digitized sources or photos to practice working with during the session, or just follow along if they prefer.

    The workshop will be led by Douglas McRae, Postdoctoral Researcher and Outreach Coordinator for Tropy at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University). 

    For more information, contact: Jennifer Schaefer at jennifer.schaefer@uconn.edu