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ADHO - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

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. [1]

ADHO was founded in 2005 and works like a big umbrella organization comprised of four humanities computing organizations: ALLC, ACH, SDH-SEMI and centerNet. They manage the main publications and conferences that are shared among its constituent organizations.

Conference

The DH (Digital Humanities Conference) is the main conference in Humanities Computing held annually by the ADHO in june. The conference, that alternates between Europe and North America, was created by combining the separate conferences held by ALLC and the ACH in 1989.[2]

Publication

The main publication on ADHO is the LLC (Literary & Linguist Computing) - The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. It is quartely published in Oxford on behalf of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing become the flagship publication of ADHO. It is an international journal which publishes material on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching. [3]

ALLC - Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded in 1973 with the 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 has increased, the interests of the Association's members have necessarily broadened, to encompass not only text analysis and language corpora, but also history, art history, music, manuscript studies, image processing and electronic editions. [4]

The ALLC is based in Europe and supports many workshops, projects and publication in Humanities Computing studies. Since it is a found member of ADHO in 2005, their main publication, LLC, was choose to be the flagship publication of the ADHO.

ACH - Association for Computer and the Humanities

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. Its support and disseminate research and cultivate a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is based in the US, but boasts an international membership.[5]

Publication

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an open-access journal of digital humanities, supported by ACH and ADHO.

SDH-SEMI -The Society for Digital for Digital Humanities/La Société pour l'étude des Média Interactif

The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs 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 / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines. Our objective is to draw together humanists who are engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation.[6]

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., and is a response to the American Council of Learned Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, published in 2006. Since its inception in April 2007, centerNet has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries.[7]

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