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Membership in ADHO organizations is by subscription to Literary and Linguistic Computing. Remember to indicate on the subscription form which regional chapter (or chapters) you wish to join. Frequently Asked Questions about ADHO membership are answered here.
Publications
The ADHO Publications Committee oversees the ongoing improvement of ADHO publications, including:- Peer reviewed journals:
- Literary and Linguistic Computing, a print journal published by Oxford University Press
- Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, a new open-access peer reviewed electronic journal from SDH/SEMI
- DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed electronic journal from ADHO
- Computers in the Humanities Working Papers, an online preprint publication
- Text Technology, a free electronic journal published by McMaster University
- Books and book series:
- Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities
- Blackwell's Companion to Digital Literary Studies
- OHC monograph series
- Topics in the Digital Humanities, a new book series coming soon from the University of Illinois Press
- Conference Papers:
- Selected conference papers from the annual joint conferences of ACH and ALLC have been published in Literary and Linguistic Computing, for example in the March, 2005 issue (from the 2004 annual joint conference) and in the April, 2003 issue (from the 2002 conference).
- Selected papers from DRH conferences have been published in a number of volumes by the Office for Humanities Communication, from which further details and an order form are available, and also by the OUP Journal Literary and Linguistic Computing.
- Guides to good practice:
Community
The ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee oversees the joint annual conference of ADHO's constituent organizations. Other community activities include:- Call for Papers for DH2010
- Digital Humanities 2010 will be held July 7-10, 2010, in London, UK
- Humanist, an ongoing international "electronic seminar" on the application of computers to the humanities
- Blogs of Interest
- Text Analysis Developers Alliance
- Humanities Computing Summer Institute at the University of Victoria
- The Busa Prize, an award given every three years by the ALLC and the ACH, to a leader in the field of humanities computing. In 1998, the winner was Father Busa, for whom the award is named. In 2001, the winner was John Burrows, in 2004 the winner was Susan Hockey, and in 2007 the winner was Wilhelm Ott.
Awards
The ADHO Awards Committee oversees four awards given for outstanding scholarly contributions to the Digital Humanities:- The Roberto Busa Prize for lifetime/career achievement.
- The Antonio Zampolli Prize for a singular project or accomplishment.
- Conference Bursary Awards to assist students or young scholars to present at the annual conference.
- The Paul Fortier Prize for the best young scholar paper of the conference.
Resources:
- Essays in Humanities Computing: essays freely available on the web, presented in a uniform virtual collection
- A catalogue of Institutional Models for Humanities Computing
- The ACH Jobs Database
- TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
History
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organization set up initially to coordinate more closely the activities of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (founded in 1978) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (founded in 1973). The effort to establish ADHO began in Tuebingen, at the ALLC/ACH conference in 2002: a Steering Committee was appointed at the ALLC/ACH meeting in 2004, in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the executive committees of the ACH and ALLC approved the governance and conference protocols at the 2005 meeting in Victoria. In 2007, the ADHO Steering Committee voted to enfranchise The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI; founded in 1986 as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines). The Conference Committee oversees the joint annual conference, which began as the ACH/ALLC (or ALLC/ACH) conference, and is now known at Digital Humanities [year]. Planned or past meetings include:- King's College London, UK (2010)
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (2009)
- University of Oulu, Finland (2008)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2007)
- The Sorbonne, Paris, France (2006)
- University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (2005)
- Goteborg University, Sweden (2004)
- University of Georgia, USA (2003)
- University of Tubingen, Germany (2002)
- New York University, USA (2001)
- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2000)
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (1999)
- Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1998)
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1997)
- University of Bergen, Norway (1996)
- University of California, Santa Barbara, California (1995)
- The Sorbonne, Paris, France (1994)
- Georgetown University, Washington, DC (1993)
- Oxford University, Oxford, England (1992)
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (1991)
- University of Siegen, Germany (1990)