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Corporation for Digital Scholarship

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Corporation for Digital Scholarship
Available inEnglish
URLdigitalscholar.org
CommercialNo
Launched2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Current statusActive

The Corporation for Digital Scholarship (Digital Scholar) is a nonprofit technology organization based in Vienna, Virginia, dedicated to developing open-source software for researchers and cultural heritage institutions. It was created in 2009 by faculty at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to provide sustainability and business support for open source digital scholarship software projects that initially had funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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As of 2014, Digital Scholar funded the development of the reference management tool Zotero with a global development team managed by Sean Takats while he was faculty at the Rosenzweig center.[1] Starting in 2021, the entire development team was employed by Digital Scholar, and none were contracted through George Mason University. In 2016, CDS took over full responsibility for the Omeka family of web publishing projects.[2]

As of 2022, Digital Scholar maintains Zotero,[3][4] Omeka (for web publishing of digital cultural heritage),[5] Tropy (for managing photographs of physical collections), PressForward (a WordPress plugin for maintaining content hubs),[6][7] and Sourcery (a mobile app and community for digitizing archival collections).[8]

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  1. ^ "Corporation for Digital Scholarship – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media". 2016-09-27. Archived from the original on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2022-07-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Omeka -- Project". omeka.org. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  3. ^ "Zotero | About". www.zotero.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  4. ^ Coughenour, Amy. "InfoGuides: Introduction to Zotero: Reference Management Tools: About Zotero". libguides.osl.state.or.us. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  5. ^ "Omeka". omeka.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  6. ^ "PressForward: A new project aims to rethink scholarly communication for the age of new media journalism". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  7. ^ Zucker-Scharff, Aram; Gorges, Boone B.; Boggs, Jeremy. "PressForward". WordPress.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  8. ^ "Digital Scholar". digitalscholar.org. Retrieved 2022-07-25.