Association for Computers and the Humanities explained

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the primary international professional society for digital humanities. ACH was founded in 1978.^[1] 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,^[2] 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.^[3] (In 2005 it was renamed to Language Resources and Evaluation.^[3]
• 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:

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Text Encoding Initiative

Notes and References

1. Hockey, Susan. "The History of Humanities Computing". In: A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
2. Web site: TEI: History. October 23, 2019.
3. Web site: Computers and the Humanities. JSTOR. October 23, 2019.