Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Name

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Legal name

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Website

https://rrchnm.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Humanities Software

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (519210), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAFACAJ

Open Educational Resources (OER) & Curriculum Repositories

Education/Education Technology (EdTech) & Digital Learning/Digital Curriculum, Courseware & Interactive Learning Content

SECONDARYEDAGAFAE

Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

SECONDARYMPAJAMAJ

Digital Archives, Libraries & Institutional Access Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Digital Publishing Platforms (E-books & Online Articles)

SECONDARYEDAEAGAF

Digital Library & Electronic Resources Operations (e-Resources, Repositories, Licensing)

Education/Education Facilities & Support Services/Library, Media Center & Learning Space Operations

Keywords

• Digital humanities tools
• Historical research platforms
• Open educational resources
• Digital archives software
• Scholarly publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Fairfax

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: RRCHNM operates primarily through grant funding from organizations including NEH, NSF, ACLS, Library of Congress, and private foundations. The center also receives institutional support from George Mason University.
2. Donations: The center accepts donations through George Mason University's giving platform to support operations and fellowships.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

RRCHNM develops open-source digital humanities software platforms (Omeka, DataScribe, PressForward, Tropy) for building digital archives and managing scholarly content, publishes the open-access peer-reviewed journal Current Research in Digital History (CRDH), and creates open educational resources, datasets, visualizations, podcasts, and public history projects. The center also educates graduate students in digital history through George Mason University's Department of History and Art History.

Product overview

RRCHNM operates as a digital humanities research center at George Mason University that produces a portfolio of interconnected open-source tools and publications for historical research, teaching, and public engagement. The core offerings include Omeka (a web publishing platform for digital collections), DataScribe (a tool for transcribing historical sources into structured data), Current Research in Digital History (a peer-reviewed open-access journal), PressForward (a WordPress-based content aggregation plugin), and Tropy (a photo management tool for archival research). These products collectively support the digital history lifecycle from archival research and data transcription to publication and dissemination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Current Research in Digital History (CRDH): An open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by RRCHNM that publishes scholarship in digital history offering discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. Published under ISSN 2637-5923.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with NMAAHC and HBCU partners on the History and Culture Access Consortium project. The project moves into beta testing mode with collaboration on digitizing and making accessible African American history materials from HBCU collections.
• HBCU Partners (History and Culture Access Consortium)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with multiple HBCUs on digitizing and preserving African American history and culture. The consortium creates access to digital collections from historically Black colleges and universities.
• George Mason University Department of History and Art HistorycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRRCHNM historians are part of George Mason University's Department of History and Art History, combining research center expertise with academic department breadth and doctoral program.
• Defense POW/MIA Accounting AgencyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership honoring veterans through documentation and sharing of history related to POW/MIA accounting efforts.
• Winterthur MuseumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to present Pennsylvania Illuminated manuscript, digitizing and making accessible historical manuscript materials.
• John Carter Brown LibraryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupport for production of Worlds Turned Upside Down podcast, providing historical research and content support.
• McCormick Center for the Study of the American RevolutionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupport for production of Worlds Turned Upside Down podcast on Revolutionary War history.
• Virginia's 250 CommissionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFunding from Virginia's 250 Commission for Worlds Turned Upside Down podcast documenting Revolutionary-era history.
• Fairfax City's Office of Historic ResourcesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on digitization of Civil War graffiti at Historic Blenheim and Brandy Station Foundation.
• Library of CongresscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrant from Library of Congress to create teaching resources for pre-service teachers. Lincoln Mullen selected for Library of Congress initiative.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• JSTOR: A large digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Comparable to RRCHNM's Current Research in Digital History journal in providing scholarly digital publishing infrastructure, but operating at far larger commercial scale.
• Project MUSE: A leading academic digital publishing platform for humanities and social sciences journals. Comparable to CRDH as a peer-reviewed humanities scholarly publishing venue, though operated at much larger scale with a broader portfolio.
• Smithsonian Learning Lab: The Smithsonian's digital platform for K-12 and public educational resources built on museum collections. Comparable to RRCHNM's K-12 OER work (e.g., teachinghistory.org, World History Commons), but operating at far larger scale as part of a broader institutional portfolio.

Direct peers

• Internet Archive: A non-profit digital library that provides open access to digitized cultural and historical materials. Directly comparable to RRCHNM in mission and operating model, with overlapping focus on democratizing access to historical content, including public-domain books, audio, and web archives.
• OpenEdition: A non-profit academic publishing platform for open-access humanities and social sciences content. Comparable to RRCHNM's CRDH journal in providing open-access scholarly publishing infrastructure for humanities scholarship.
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): A non-profit aggregator that provides a single portal to digitized collections from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Directly comparable to RRCHNM's digital archive and OER mission, with strong U.S. focus and open-access principles.
• HathiTrust: A large-scale collaborative digital preservation repository shared by academic and research libraries. Comparable to RRCHNM in operating digital archives at scale, serving academic and public research communities, and providing open-access scholarly infrastructure.
• iCivics: A non-profit providing free civics and history educational games and resources for K-12 classrooms. Comparable to RRCHNM's K-12 OER efforts in mission and target audience, with a complementary focus on civics education using digital tools.
• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (Adams Center affiliate) - Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis: A university-based digital humanities research center conducting computational analysis of historical sources. Directly comparable to RRCHNM as a peer academic digital humanities center with grant-funded research, tool development, and graduate training.
• National History Day: A non-profit that provides K-12 history education programs, curriculum, and competitions. Directly comparable to RRCHNM in serving K-12 history teachers and students with free educational resources and primary-source-based learning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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