The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, or ADHO, is a digital humanities umbrella organization formed in 2005 to coordinate the activities of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH), and the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI).

History

The effort to establish the Alliance began in Tübingen

Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

, Germany, at the ALLC/ACH conference in 2002: a Steering Committee was appointed at the ALLC/ACH meeting in 2004, in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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, Sweden, and the executive committees of the ACH and ALLC approved the governance and conference protocols at the 2005 meeting in Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

, Canada. In 2007, the Alliance 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).

Conference

The Alliance oversees a joint annual conference, which began as the ACH/ALLC (or ALLC/ACH) conference, and is now known as the Digital Humanities conference

Digital Humanities conference

The Digital Humanities series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of digital humanities. It is hosted by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been held annually since 1990. It attracts hundreds of international attendees...

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Peer-reviewed journals

• Literary and Linguistic Computing
  Literary and Linguistic Computing
  Literary and Linguistic Computing is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing focusing on digital scholarship in the humanities. It covers all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching....
  
  , a print journal published by Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
  
  
• Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal from SDH/SEMI
• Digital Humanities Quarterly
  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....
  
   (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal from the Alliance
• Computers in the Humanities Working Papers, an online preprint publication
• Text Technology, a free electronic journal published by McMaster University

The Busa Prize

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations awards the "Busa Prize", which honors leaders in the field of humanities computing, in honor of Italian

Italy

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 Father Roberto Busa

Roberto Busa

Roberto Busa was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis...

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Winners include:

• Roberto Busa (Italy) (presented in 1998, Debrecen, Hungary), who was the first awarded
• John Burrows (Australia) (presented in 2001, New York, New York, USA)
• Susan Hockey (UK) (presented in 2004, Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Wilhelm Ott (Germany) (2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA)
• Joseph Raben (USA) (2010, Kings College London, UK)