Digital Humanities: Community

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.

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a professional society for DH. With activities, conferences, and publications, they support computer-assisted research, teaching, and software and content development in humanistic disciplines.

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) brings together and represents the Digital Humanities in Europe across the entire spectrum of disciplines that research, develop, and apply digital humanities methods and technology. These include art history, cultural studies, history, image processing, language and literature studies, manuscripts studies, and musicology, amongst others. The EADH also supports the formation of DH interest groups in Europe that are defined by region, language, methodological focus or other criteria.

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 cyber infrastructure 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. Through initiatives such as Day (s) of DH and Resources for Starting and Sustaining DH Centers, centerNet provides a virtual DH center for isolated DH projects and platform for educating the broader scholarly community about Digital Humanities. centerNet also keeps a list of affiliated DH centers across the globe.

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) is a network for humanists, artists, social scientists, naturalists, and engineers to work collaboratively to think and make creatively and critically about equity, access, privacy, security, and other social dimensions of technology and learning. HASTAC functions as a commons to connect scholars while also hosting conferences, leading initiatives, and offering funding and opportunities for emerging scholars.

In addition to DH organizations, participate in disciplinary organizations such as the Modern Language Association (MLA). The MLA connects scholars in the humanities, serving both English and foreign language scholars.

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

The monthly newsletter for the IDRH. Receive updates on events, workshops, and opportunities at KU.

Digital Humanities Now aggregates and selects material from our Compendium of the Digital Humanities, drawing from hundreds of venues where high-quality digital humanities scholarship is likely to appear, including the personal websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, and other feeds. It also seeks to discover new material by monitoring Twitter and other social media for stories discussed by the community, and by continuously scanning the broader web.

Listserv for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). DHSI is based at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., Canada, but connects researchers across the world. The listserv is a valuable resource for learning about graduate programs, job opportunities, events, and calls for papers.

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) maintains multiple listservs and discussion groups including DLF-Announce, the primary list, CODE4LIB, and several specialized lists.

Members of the Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL) maintain an active digital humanities discussion group.

Members of the Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL) maintain a forum on digital scholarship services including digital curation in support of the lifecycle of management of research, digital humanities research and development, and GIS.

A collaborative calendar of events, meetings, symposia, seminars, institutes, conferences and so forth aimed at professionals and students who are doing digital work in the humanities

"The Humanities and Technology Camp" is an unconference event: "an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot." Participants draw up the agenda on the first day and devote the rest of the time to hands-on workshops and discussion.

Annual conference hosted by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations since 1990. One of the largest international digital humanities conferences.

Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) is a "5-day training institute that includes keynotes, ignite talks, and local cultural heritage excursions for researchers, students, early career scholars and cultural heritage professionals who seek to learn more about Digital Humanities theory, practice, and culture." HILT conferences are typically hosted in the midwest.

Hosted at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., Canada, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) offers two back-to-back week-long intensives every summer. A range of courses are available on topics including book history, text encoding, digital exhibits, project management, GIS and more. Scholarships and travel bursaries are available for graduate students.

Miriam Posner is an assistant professor of information studies and digital humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Blog by Ted Underwood, professor at the School of Information Sciences and English Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Underwood's research interests include Romanticism and information science as literary criticism.

Dan Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

KU does not currently support a digital humanities degree program or minor, but through a research community that is deeply engaged in the digital humanities, many interdisciplinary courses are available to students.

Crowdsourced GitHub repository listing advanced degrees in the digital humanities across the globe.

centerNet's network lists over 200 DH centers globally