Digital Scholar

A Path to Sustainability

Mission

Digital Scholar is dedicated to launching, supporting, and sustaining critical open-source infrastructure for the digital humanities through responsible stewardship and ethical business practices. In doing so, DS is devoted to defending the right of the public to freely obtain, develop, and distribute free and open source software, and to supporting FOSS projects as they pursue sustainability.

Vision

An environment where the open-source software that individuals and institutions rely upon for their research, publishing, and public engagement has a viable path to independence and sustainability.

Our Values

• We are committed to developing and sustaining free and open source software that provides an infrastructure for scholarly research and digital cultural heritage work.

• We are committed to working in a respectful and collaborative way among our project staff and with the community of users and developers who engage with our software.

• We are committed to providing responsibly-priced services that meet user community needs and contribute to the sustainability of the software projects.

• We are committed to working in productive collaboration with other FOSS projects to pursue sustainability.

Profile

• Founding: October 9, 2009

• Form: Virginia Non-Stock Corporation

• Governance: Officers and Board of Directors

• Office: Falls Church, VA

• Salaried Employees: 9

• Independent Contractors: 18

Initial Financials

• Zotero Sales 2010: $91,370

  • Infrastructure costs: $4,872

• Omeka.net Sales 2011: $13,448

  • Infrastructure costs: $2,640

Zotero

• Project Start: 2006
• Independent: 2013
• Core Version: 6.0.36 (beta-7)
• iOS Application: 1.0.27
• Android Application: Beta
• Staff: 15

Users

• Users: 12,100,000
• Subscribers: ~ 10%

Omeka Classic

• Project Start: 2007
  • Independent: 2016
• Downloads*: 109,337
  • Committers: 46
• Total Repositories: 57
• Total Commits: 13,636
• Plugins: 43 (75 ext)
  • Downloads: 138,448
• Themes: 13 (1 ext)
  • Downloads: 109,337

Omeka S

• Project Start: 2013
• Downloads*: 63,525
  • Committers: 31
• Total Repositories: 42
• Total Commits: 13,302
• Modules: 33 (80 ext)
  • Downloads: 71,812
• Themes: 8 (2 ext)
  • Downloads: 36, 525

Omeka.net

• Project launch: October 2010
• Users: 108,847
• Sites: 61,109
• Paid Plans: 1,128

Plans

• Trial (free, forever)
• Plus ($35, annual) 2 sites, 2GB, 22 plugins, 9 themes
• Silver ($75, annual) 5 sites, 5GB, 25 plugins, 9 themes
• Gold: ($350, annual) 10 sites, 10GB, 38 plugins, 12 themes
• Platinum: ($1k, annual) unlimited sites, 50GB, 38 plugins, 12 themes