Association for Computers and the Humanities
{{Short description|International professional society for digital humanities}}
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the primary international professional society for digital humanities. ACH was founded in 1978.Hockey, Susan. "[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ The History of Humanities Computing]". In: A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. According to the official website, the organization "support[s] and disseminate[s] research and cultivate[s] 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,{{cite web|url=https://tei-c.org/about/history/|title=TEI: History|access-date=October 23, 2019}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/journal/comphuma|title=Computers and the Humanities|publisher=JSTOR|access-date=October 23, 2019}} (In 2005 it was renamed to Language Resources and Evaluation.
- The print journal most closely associated with ACH is Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press).
- The open-access, peer-reviewed journal of ACH is Digital Humanities Quarterly (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:
References
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External links
- {{oweb|http://ach.org/}}
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Category:Humanities organizations
Category:Professional associations based in the United States