American Historical Association: Research Clutter: A New App Helps Create Order out of Disorder. "Tropy is a free, open-source desktop application designed to help researchers organize and describe the photos they take in archives in intuitive and useful ways. It allows users to group photos of research materials, annotate images, add metadata, export to other applications, and easily search their collections."
What I like about it - it allows you to create metadata for images, organize groups of photos, and export the metadata to other applications. It also makes the collection searchable.
Where it's better than creating the metadata in Digital Commons - it allows you to pick any number of photos to add the same data.
What I don't like about it - it only works with .jpg files.
How it could be useful here - perhaps it is something a student working in the archives could learn and try out. If it worked well, could it be a possible workshop idea for the DSC?
For more information: https://tropy.org/
