Scholarly Societies for Digital Humanities

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

The Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) is the primary international professional society for digital humanities. ACH was founded in 1978. The organization supports and disseminates research and cultivates a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is based in the United States, and has an international membership. ACH is a founding member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), a co-originator of the Text Encoding Initiative, and a co-sponsor of an annual conference.

Journals

The open-access, peer-reviewed journal of ACH is Digital Humanities Quarterly (ADHQ)
The print journal most closely associated with ACH is Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press)

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), is a digital humanities umbrella organization formed in 2005 to coordinate the activities of several regional DH organizations, referred to as constituent organizations.ADHO's constituent organizations are the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN), centerNet, the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) and Humanistica, the french-speaking association for Digital Humanities.

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des

The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) 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 organisations; and beyond.

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH)

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH) is aligned with an international network of digital humanities member organisations in Asia, Europe, USA and Canada. aaDH shares a common goal of bringing together like-minded researchers and practitioners to apply advanced computing and digital media methods in humanities and social sciences research. Data-driven research is fundamentally changing the way knowledge is produced, with increasing accessibility and evolving means of locating, presenting, sharing and analysing information having a major impact on the processes and products of research across all disciplines.

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. Anchored by its new publication DHCommons, centerNet enables individual DH Centers to network internationally — sharing and building on projects, tools, staff, and expertise.

European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) promotes the advancement of education in the digital humanities through the development and use of computational methods in research and teaching in the Humanities and related disciplines, especially literary and linguistic computing.

Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH)

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) seeks to foster an environment where international collaborative works of digital humanities scholarship can be more fully realized.