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. Members ADHO's con ...

(ADHO), a co-originator of the

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, and a co-sponsor of an annual conference.

Conference

ACH has been a co-sponsor of the annual Digital Humanities conference (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 ''

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'' (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 the ...

'' (ADHO).

Associated Organizations

ACH is joined in ADHO by: * Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (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 proce ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Computing and society Digital humanities Humanities organizations Professional associations based in the United States