Douglas McRae

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Historian of #Brazil, #LatinAmerica, urban environments. Postdoc research fellow/education+outreach for #Tropy (tropy.org) at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Will only be logged on Mon-Fri.
Websitehttps://tropy.org
Professionalhttps://rrchnm.org/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dv_mcrae

Are you an environmental historian who uses Tropy? How does Tropy help you organize/analyze your sources? I will be presenting Tropy to a group of environmental historians next month and I'd be interested in hearing about your particular experience! PM me or reply, I look forward to hearing from you!

#tropy #envhist #digitalhumanities #environment #envhistodons #digitalhistory

#histodons is there anyone out there using #tropy and #omeka at the same time?

If so, the Tropy team would like to hear your experience.

Oh by the way...did you know Tropy has a plugin that makes it very easy to export your Tropy project items to Omeka S?

https://github.com/tropy/tropy-plugin-omeka

(If you’re working on public history projects and planning online exhibits it might be handy for you.)

GitHub - tropy/tropy-plugin-omeka: Tropy plugin for exporting items into Omeka

Tropy plugin for exporting items into Omeka. Contribute to tropy/tropy-plugin-omeka development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Will you be at #AHA2023 in Philly and are you interested in learning more about #Tropy ? Let's find a time to connect this weekend!

I will be in Philly along with a host of impressive panels and presentations from the people at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

https://rrchnm.org/news/connect-with-rrchnm-at-aha23/#

Connect with RRCHNM at AHA23 – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Are you interested in learning more about #Tropy? The Tropy team has two dedicated outreach postdocs who frequently hold virtual and in-person demonstration sessions and workshops.

In the upcoming week we will lead sessions at Universidad Católica Andres Bello (Caracas, Venezuela--see attached image), Arquivo Público Estadual de São Paulo (Brazil) and the Univrsidade Federal de Sergipe (also Brazil).

Contact us if you'd like to set up a Tropy session at your institution!

@dh
@histodons

@natalie @dvmcrae @alucchesi Stating the obvious but--if you make each letter its own item, you can put date and author and other metadata by item and treat it as a corpus.

I'm doing this with a huge 1000+ document probate file and it really helps to understand the correspondence flows.

@dvmcrae For the past hour, since @whanley sent this link, I've been sitting here with my mouth open as I explore the possibilities of Tropy. This looks great and so promising. Just looking at how the whole thing might work together with Omeka S. It just looks fantastic. Excited to learn more. Thank you!

@alucchesi

@natalie @dh As a general purpose annotation tool for a multipage manuscript, #tropy is pretty good. (It's even better if you have multiple multipage manuscripts in the same project.) A combination of annotation boxes and controlled tag vocabulary could work well for you. https://tropy.org/
Explore your research photos

Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.

Tropy
If you do research (or have fun with!) large collections of images, whether of your own taking or institutionally provided ones, #Tropy is a life saver and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I've been using it since early days and am delighted with it https://tropy.org/
Explore your research photos

Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.

Tropy

#tropy users...did you first start using Tropy at the beginning of a new project, or did you first adopt it during a project in progress? What was your experience switching from your previous workflow to Tropy?

I'm trying to find out more about our users, but also want to keep the conversation rolling about how Tropy can help researchers with their projects.

(If you've never heard of Tropy, check out tropy.org)

#histodons
#digitalhumanities
#research
#dissertation
#thesis
#archives

Who writes about artificial #lakes and #reservoirs in the #Anthropocene ?

I am interested in the trajectory of the #RepresaBillings (Billings Reservoir) in #SãoPaulo as a product of the Anthropocene, and would like to write up an article drawing from my research into the megacity's modern #waterscape.

Related: I am always drawn back to this image that Paulo Whitaker captured in 2015, at the height of São Paulo's #watercrisis esp as it relates to Daniel Aldana Cohen's idea of #ecoapartheid