Research/Craft #8: Tropy

With Jessica Mack (@jrobinmack), Assistant Professor of Digital History at Rowan University. We talk organizing archival documents in @Tropy, general research management, and digital history. I also demo a workflow using Tropy, and do a side-by-side comparison of Tropy and DEVONthink. (Interview recorded June 2022.) For an abridged version of the episode, featuring only the Tropy workflow demo and the comparison with DEVONthink, see https://youtu.be/35mC1u_Oawo. Contents: 2:25 Introduction to Tropy 6:48 Lists vs. Tags 10:19 Adding and Creating Tags 13:05 Customizing Metadata Templates 14:26 Tropy, Zotero, and Software Sustainability 16:18 Bulk-editing Metadata 18:08 Merging Multiple Photos into One Item 23:51 Consolidating Items 24:52 Item-Level View 25:12 Photo Editing 26:25 Taking Notes 27:16 Taking Notes on a Specific Part of an Image 30:58 Integrating Trophy into a Research Workflow 33:44 Metadata Templates 39:32 Language Preferences 42:25 Tropy Workflow Demo 1:10:37 Researching Mexico's National University 1:15:39 Changing Research Practices 1:19:31 Bringing Together Public History, Digital History, and Research Methods 1:24:18 Toward an Inclusive Digital History Other Tropy Tutorials: Getting Started in Tropy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqTkI49JUDA Tropy for Graduate Students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yppPfY9Vb48 Metadata Templates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk5APGD6200 Introducción a Tropy en español: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHj5F-h3TcQ Other Resources: Jessica Mack's website: https://www.jessicarobinmack.com/ Jessica Mack's online course, "Into the Archive:" https://edge.edx.org/courses/course-v1:Princeton+Archive01+2019/about