Any historian who has been to an archive in the digital era remembers each day as a race to capture as much material as possible in a limited time. The key to keeping this process organized is to keep track of archival location and to file your images with precise location data as soon as possible. Among all the programs that help manage images, I prefer Zotero, a free and open-source research tool available from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Zotero is best known for capturing bibliographical data, but can also help with note taking and managing research files. While other programs are better for one of these tasks—just notes, or just article PDFs, or just images—Zotero excels as a Swiss Army knife, do-it-almost-all research tool. Here, I will describe how to use Zotero in conjunction with a camera (in my case, an iPhone), image import software (in my case, iPhoto), and a PDF editor
Zotero est utilisé pour gérer la collection de recherche qui comprend images, notes et références. Le tout associé à un dispositif "cloud" pour disposer de sauvegardes, pour cela l'utilitaire Zotfile qui se charge des sauvegardes dans Dropbox est utilisé.
Enfin, quand il s'agit de passer à l'écriture, les éléments les plus utiles sont transférés dans Scrivener.