Institutions and Scholarly Societies in the Digital Humanities
The institutions and societies listed below
play major roles in supporting and promoting digital work and
scholarship in the humanities.
- The
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) - An umbrella
organization whose goals are to promote, support, and recognize excellence in digital research
and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines; publishes the refereed Digital Humanities Quarterly.
- The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) - Dedicated to the productive marriage of history and
computer technology for teaching, researching and representing history; publishes the refereed Journal of the American Association for History and Computing.
- Association for Literary & Linguistic
Computing - Promotes the
development and use of computational methods in research and teaching
in the humanities with particular reference to literary and linguistic
computing; publishes the refereed LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
- Association for Computers & the
Humanities
- The major professional society for the digital humanities, supporting
computer-assisted research, teaching, and software/content development
in humanistic disciplines.
- centerNet - An international network of digital humanities centers
formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital
humanities and allied fields in general, and humanities
cyberinfrastructure in particular.
- Council on Library & Information
Resources (CLIR) - An independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to
enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration
with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher
learning.
- DARIAH - An EU-based hub to enhance and support infrastructure for digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts.
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia - An
institute dedicated to exploring and developing information technology
as a tool for scholarly humanities research; IATH supports and presents
unique research projects that bridge humanities and computer science
research faculty, student assistants and project managers, and library
faculty and staff.
- The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM), George Mason University- Since
1994, CHNM has used digital media and computer technology to
democratize
history, in particular through creating unique research tools and
databases for teaching, learning, conducting and sharing scholarly
research, and building online exhibits.
- Scholarly Communications Institute, University of Virginia Library
- An annual meeting to discuss key topics in advancing scholarly
communication, including in the digital humanities. Past meeting themes
have included humanities centers, spatial technologies, and visual
studies.
- Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPOR) - Based at McMaster University, Canada, a human and computing infrastructure for text analysis and the study of electronic texts.