Communities

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. It supports and disseminates research and cultivates a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is based in the US, but boasts an international membership (as of May 2012, representing 21 countries worldwide).

ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities

The ALLC was founded in 1973 with the name Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and with the original purpose of supporting the application of computing in the study of language and literature.

As the range of available and relevant computing techniques in the humanities increased the interests of the association's members have broadened substantially and encompass not only text analysis and language corpora, but also history, art history, music, manuscript studies, image processing and electronic editions. The association's new name, which was adopted in 2012, reflects this significant widening of scope. Today the ALLC's mission is to represent European Digital Humanities across all disciplines.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes and supports digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training.

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques

The Society for Digital Humanities is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986, founded as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities. Its objective is to draw together humanists who are engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation. The society fosters work in the digital humanities in Canada’s two official languages, and champions interaction between Canada’s anglophone and francophone communities, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership: providing opportunities for publication, presentation, and collaboration; supporting a number of educational venues and international initiatives; acting as an advisory and lobbying force to local, national, and international research and research-funding bodies; working with allied organizations; and beyond.

centerNet

centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. It developed from a meeting hosted by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C.

arts-humanities.net

arts-humanities.net aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing:

• Information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions
• Information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources
• A listing of expert centers and individual researchers
• A library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography

arts-humanities.net is developed and managed by the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King’s College London (KCL).

DHCommons

DHCommons is a hub for people and organizations to find projects to work with, and for projects to find collaborators. As an initiative of centerNet, DHCommons serves as an online hub focused on matching digital humanities projects seeking assistance with scholars interested in project collaboration. This hub responds to a pressing and demonstrable need for a project-collaborator matching service that will allow scholars interested in DH to enter the field by joining an existing project as well as make existing projects more sustainable by drawing in new, well-matched participants. Additionally, DHCommons helps break down the siloization of an emerging field by connecting collaborators across institutions, a particularly acute need for solo practitioners and those without access to a digital humanities center.

HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory)

HASTAC (“haystack”) is a network of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer for shaping how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities. Members are motivated by the conviction that the digital era provides rich opportunities for informal and formal learning and for collaborative, networked research that extends across traditional disciplines, across the boundaries of academe and community, across the “two cultures” of humanism and technology, across the divide of thinking versus making, and across social strata and national borders.

Digital Americanist

Digital Americanists is a scholarly society dedicated to the study of American literature, culture, and digital media. Digital Americanists holds its business meeting at the annual convention of the American Literature Association (ALA), and sponsors scholarly panels at the ALA as well as other conferences.

Digital Classicist

The Digital Classicist is a decentralized and international community of scholars and students interested in the application of innovative digital methods and technologies to research on the ancient world. Its website serves as an online hub for discussion, collaboration and communication.

Digital Medievalist

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

Membership in Digital Medievalist is open to anyone with an interest in its subject matter, without regard to skill or previous experience in Digital Humanities or Medieval Studies. Participants range from novices contemplating their first project to many of the pioneers in the field.

Romantic Circles

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. It is published by the University of Maryland and supported, in part, by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the English Departments of Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Maryland. Romantic Circles is currently serving approximately 3.5 million pages each year to users in over 160 countries around the world. The site includes:

• Electronic Editions – searchable archive of innovative, scholarly online editions of Romantic works
• Praxis – collections of original critical and theoretical essays on current issues in Romanticism
• Scholarly Resources – custom-built chronologies, indexes and other online tools for the study of Romanticism
• Reviews – original online reviews of print and electronic publications in the field of Romanticism
• Pedagogies – guides for teachers and other online resources for Romantic studies in the classroom

Digital Humanities Now

Digital Humanities Now showcases the scholarship and news of interest to the digital humanities community through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review. Digital Humanities Now also is an experiment in ways to identify, evaluate, and distribute scholarship on the open web through a weekly publication and the quarterly Journal of Digital Humanities.

The Journal of Digital Humanities and Digital Humanities Now are produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Digital Humanities Quarterly

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), it began publication in 2007.

Digital Medievalist

Digital Medievalist (DM) is the Digital Medievalist project’s on-line, refereed journal. DM accepts work of original research and scholarship, notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions are reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication. Contributions to DM should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus.

Journal of Digital Humanities

The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter. The Journal of Digital Humanities offers expanded coverage of the digital humanities in three ways:

1. Publishing scholarly work beyond the traditional research article
2. Selecting content from open and public discussions in the field
3. Encouraging continued discussion through peer-to-peer review

The Journal of Digital Humanities and Digital Humanities Now are produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

TEXT Technology

TEXT Technology is an eclectic journal for academics and professionals around the world, supplying articles devoted to any use of computers to acquire, analyze, create, edit, or translate texts.

TEXT Technology is edited by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The journal features articles and special issues devoted to professional and academic writing and research, software and book reviews, literary and linguistic analyses of texts, electronic publishing and issues related to the Internet, along with annotated bibliographies of printed and electronic materials of use to those with a decided interest in textual material.

Digital Humanities Conference

The annual Digital Humanities Conference sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations features the latest research adn scholarship about Digital Humanities with seminars, speakers, poster sessions, workshops and panel discussions.

Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

This NEH grant program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp

THATCamp is an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. THATCamp is collaborative, informal, spontaneous and timely – the agenda/program/schedule is created by the participants during the first session of the day, rather than months before by a program committee. It is non-hierarchical and non-disciplinary and inter-professional: THATCamps welcome graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, K-12 teachers, administrators, managers, and funders as well as people from the non-profit sector, people from the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs. The topic “the humanities and technology” contains multitudes.

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association annual meeting often features sessions focuses on Digital Humanities-related subjects, such as Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History.

Modern Language Association (MLA)

The MLA hosts an annual convention which increasingly features sessions and workshops focused on Digital Humanities-related subjects.