The photography area is responsible for carrying out the CIME digital repository project -ReD-CIME - which, with the aim of making a systematic description, proposes to digitize and cure the collection of micrographs obtained by electron microscopy that the institution keeps in order of constituting a catalog of micrographic data for scientific education and dissemination.
The specific objectives of ReD-CIME are:

• Gather, preserve and disseminate the institution's micrographic production.
• Increase the visibility of scientific production and data collected from the institutions involved.
• Make available scientific and educational resources of high value to the entire community concerned.
• Connect the institutional digital repository in regional, national and Latin American databases.

Ant head micrograph obtained by MEB. Zeiss EM109 CISME CONICET UNT. This is the first capture of an image by MEB made at the Center on August 29, 1983.

This image file, which we call micrographs because they are those obtained from objects that are not visible to the naked eye through the help of optical or electronic instruments such as magnifying glasses and microscopes, form a scientific and educational heritage that requires their conservation and custody. For this, the design of image management and dissemination strategies that allow its durability over time, its reuse by new generations and, where appropriate, the generation of added value is required. In that regard, the creation of ReD-CIME was approved by decision of the Board of Directors of the CONICET Tucumán Technological Scientific Center on February 23, 2016. At the moment, there are 40,000 photographs on flexible media and 27700 digital natives.

Of the total, 20% corresponds to renal and skin biopsies, 57.6% to biological material in general and the rest to non-biological samples. Within the biological samples viruses, prokaryotes: bacteria and archaea, eukaryotes are described: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, Cnidarians / Porifers, fungi, yeasts, protozoa, plants, algae, organelles, macromolecules, hair, teeth, Calculations and food. Non-biological ones correspond to archaeological elements, minerals, rocks, soils, sediments, nanoparticles, etc.