The Corporation for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is a nonprofit technology organization based in

Vienna, Virginia Vienna () is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Vienna has a population of 16,473. Significantly more people live in ZIP codes with the Vienna postal addresses (22180, 22181, and 22182), bordered approx ...

, dedicated to developing

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

for researchers and cultural heritage institutions. It was created in 2009 at the

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), formerly the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), is a research center specializing in history and information technology at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County, Virgin ...

at George Mason University with initial funding from the

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, simply known as Mellon Foundation, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pitts ...

, the United States

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, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Supported projects

As of 2016, CDS funded the development of the reference management tool

Zotero Zotero () is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF files. Features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footno ...

while it was maintained by the Rosenzweig center. Starting in 2021, the project was transferred to CDS. As of 2022, CDS maintains

Omeka Omeka (also known as Omeka Classic) is a free, open-source content management system for online digital collections. As a web application, it allows users to publish and exhibit cultural heritage objects, and extend its functionality with the ...

(for digital archiving),

Tropy Tropy is a free and open-source desktop knowledge organization application that helps users manage and describe photographs of research materials. It was developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Photos import ...

(for managing photographs of physical collections), PressForward (a WordPress plugin for maintaining content hubs), and Sourcery (a mobile app and community for digitizing archival collections).

External links

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