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Tropy

Digital Scholar
United States of America
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About

Launched: 2017
Record Updated: Dec 09, 2025
Digital asset management system
Bring order to your research — use the power of Tropy to organize and describe your research photos so you can find your sources whenever you need them.
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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 obtain, develop, and distribute free and open source software, and to supporting FOSS projects as they pursue sustainability.

Technical Attributes

Maintenance Status

Actively Maintained

Open Code Repository

Implemented
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Technical Documentation

Implemented
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Code License

Implemented
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Technical Attribute Statements

Technology Readiness Level

  • Actual system proven in operational environment

Code Licenses Used

  • GNU General Public License (GPL)

Standards

Metadata

  • IIIF
  • JSON-LD
  • METS
  • REST

Integrations

  • IIIF
  • Omeka

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Implemented
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Community Statements

User Contribution Pathways

  • Contribute to code

Community Engagement Activities

  • Blogs
  • Mailing lists and discussion forums (including Slack)
  • Social media

Policies & Governance

Governance Summary

Tropy is a hosted project of Digital Scholar, a non-stock corporation in the United States that follows 501(c)3 guidelines in its operations.

Policies

Bylaws

Implemented
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Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

Implemented
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Governance Records

In Progress

Governance Structure & Processes

Implemented
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Policy Statements

Board Structure

  • Advisory board or steering committee

Board Level

  • Provider

Community Governance

  • Ad hoc

Additional Information

Organizational History

Tropy was initially launched in 2017 from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with research funding from the Mellon Foundation. Since 2024 the corporation Digital Scholar has continued to develop Tropy independently. Digital Scholar is a non-stock corporation that follows 501c3 guidelines in its operations.

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Fiscal sponsorship (non-profit)

Current Affiliations

None.

Funding

Primary Funding Source

  • Program service revenue
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