The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the primary international professional society for

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

. ACH was founded in 1978. According to the official website, the organization "support and disseminate research and cultivate 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 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 o ...

(ADHO), a co-originator of the

Text Encoding Initiative The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...

, and a co-sponsor of an annual conference.

Conference

ACH has been a co-sponsor of the annual

Digital Humanities conference The Digital Humanities conference is an academic conference for the field of digital humanities. It is hosted by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been held annually since 1989. History The first joint conference was held in 198 ...

(formerly ACH/ALLC, before that International Conference on Computing in the Humanities or ICCH) since 1989. From 2006, when ADHO was founded, the larger umbrella organization is the conference's official sponsor.

Journals

*Until 2004, ''Computers and the Humanities'' was the official journal of ACH. (In 2005 it was renamed to ''Language Resources and Evaluation''. *The print journal most closely associated with ACH is ''

Literary and Linguistic Computing ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities that covers all aspects of computing and information technology applied to Arts and Humanities research. It is one of ...

'' (Oxford University Press). *The open-access, peer-reviewed journal of ACH is ''

Digital Humanities Quarterly ''Digital Humanities Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication. The journal is funded and published by t ...

'' (ADHO).

Associated Organizations

ACH is joined in ADHO by: *

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), formerly known as the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), is a digital humanities organisation founded in London in 1973.History of Humanities Computing, in: A Compani ...

(ALLC) * Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH-SCHN) Other related Organizations: *

Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language proces ...

References

External links

Official website
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