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Digital Humanities: Communities

Organizations

Alliance of DH Organizations (ADHO) | 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.

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) | The Association for Computers and the Humanities is your professional society for the digital humanities! Through our activities, conferences, and publications, we support computer-assisted research, teaching, and software and content development in humanistic disciplines. 

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) | The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH) was formed in March 2011 to strengthen the digital humanities research community in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific. The professional association acts to support and extend links between digital humanities researchers, improve professional development opportunities and provide international leverage for local projects and initiatives.

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH) | The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986, founded as the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities. Our objective is to draw together humanists who are engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation. 

centerNet | 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 cyberinfrastructure in particular.

Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) | The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium is a digital humanities research and teaching community for ethnic studies fields. They support the work of faculty, librarians, and students through events, professional development, networking opportunities, and a regranting program.

Digital Library Federation (DLF) | The Digital Library Federation is a community of practitioners who advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-DH) | The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) offers grant programs that fund project teams developing new technologies for humanities research, teaching and learning, public engagement, open access publishing, as well as for those studying digital culture from a humanistic perspective. Another major goal of ODH is to increase capacity of the humanities field, interpreted broadly, in applying digital methods.

Online Communities

Knowledge Commons is a network for knowledge creators across the disciplines. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in the repository.

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) | HASTAC is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn.

DH Slack | The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 "channels" (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences.