Code snippet to accompany the fediverse post: https://scholar.social/@cadxdr/108464579108516573
This is a simple system based on Emacs, Org mode, and it's Capture feature to annotate images. Or any other file really, but I'm making this workflow to annotate images, as an alternative to using Tropy.
Tropy is nice but for my purposes, for whom pictures aren't the centre of my research, it is a bit too much. I need to know about stuff, like Dublin Core, or specific metadata practices, which likely won't come up in my work. So I don't want that barrier to get in my way when I'm organising and annotating photographs.
The below snippet assumes there's a file at the path ~/Notes/Photos.org and that you have used org-store-link to collect links for the file or the files you would like to annotate. The template creates a toplevel entry in the file, prompts you for information, and then you're presented with something like below in the capture template:
*
| author | Some Body |
| place | Some Where, Some Place, ... |
| date&time | [an inactive org timestamp] |
- Link 1
- Link 2 (if applicable)
- ....
The cursor will be on the first line, right after * where you can insert a title. Then, optionally, you can go to the bottom of the entry and add freeform comments.
Of course that's just how I plan to use it. Feel free to turn this into whatever works for you. FWIW, I make the code available under Creative Commons 0 Public Domain licence.
P.S.: This is adapted from my configuration, see here for the original version.