Tropy

Tropy is a free software that enables you to organize and describe photographs of research material. Once your photographs are imported into Tropy you can organize them into items and group them into lists. You are also able to describe the content of the photographs, tag them, and transcribe any information contained within the image. Metadata templates are customizable and include multiple fields for different properties of the content of your photographs, such as title, date, author, box, folder, collection, and archive. Tropy's search functionality enables the metadata, tags, and notes for each photograph to be searchable. 

Tropy is not:

• A photo editing software, like Photoshop
• A citation manager (see Zotero for that)
• A platform for writing your research
• A platform for presenting your research online (see Omeka for that)

This infoguide borrows heavily from the Tropy documentation.

See these guides for more help with your digital scholarship project.

• Working with Data. What you need to know for data management and data wrangling
• Software for Digital Scholarship. Information about DiSC-supported software for the collection, processing, analysis or display of numeric, text, or geospatial data
• Digital Humanities. A guide to the concepts and tools of the expanding field of digital humanities

The Digital Scholarship Center staff have created many guides about digital scholarship, which you can view here.