Digital Scholarship_archived: Organizations & Centers

The CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding. Its focus is on major, grant-funded projects, but it is also involved in custom contract development, consulting, and support services for a range of historical, educational, cultural, and governmental organizations.

MITH is University of Maryland’s primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners in digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture. It functions largely as an applied think-tank for the digital humanities, furthering its Fellows’ research as well as cultivating its own. Its current research clusters around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, and virtual worlds.

metaLAB (at) Harvard is a research unit, hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, dedicated to innovation and experimentation in the arts, media and humanities. More a cluster of experiments than a structured unit, it offers space for experimentation and collaboration, hosts a community of scholars, artists, designers, journalists, technologists, architects, and students engaged in team-based experiments, and serves as a project incubator and e-publishing lab.

Formerly called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College aims to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications to implement these possibilities. Special attention is given to the production of online research publications. DDH participates in major research projects in the field, hosts seminars, conferences and colloquia, and runs an active program for visiting fellows.

Hyperstudio aims to enhance teaching, learning and research in the humanities, social sciences and the arts, by working with MIT faculty to conceptualize, develop, and use collaborative digital media environments at MIT and beyond. It explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities.

The CDRH advances interdisciplinary research in the humanities by creating unique digital content, developing tools to assist scholars in text analysis and visualization, and encouraging the use (and refinement) of international standards for humanities computing. It offers forums, workshops, and research fellowships for faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship.

Part of the Annenberg Center on Communication, Leadership and Policy at the University of Southern California, the Institute for the Future of the Book aims to chronicle the shift from print to digital publication, and to impact the development of that shift in a positive direction. Among other activities, it works to build tools for the creation of complex electronic documents while experimenting with existing tools.

IATH provides opportunities for researchers in the arts and humanities to employ sophisticated technical support and advanced computer technology in the service of their scholarship. The website presents their research projects, essays, and documentation, which are products of a unique collaboration between humanities and computer science research faculty, computer professionals, student assistants and project managers, and library faculty and staff.

The ADHO is an umbrella organization whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines. The ADHO encompasses three constituent organizations: the European Association for Digital Humanities (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI).

HASTAC is a consortium of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and engineers committed to new forms of collaboration which cross communities and disciplines and are fostered by creative uses of technology. Members share work and ideas, host HASTAC events online or in their area, initiate conversations, and work collaboratively with others in the network.

Formerly the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.

The ODH's primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship. It works with NEH staff and members of the scholarly community to facilitate conversations with other funding bodies both in the United States and abroad, in order to work towards meeting the challenges presented by developing technology. The ODH also sponsors the Digging Into Data Challenge.

The aim of the Electronic Literature Organization is to facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media.

The TEI-C collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. It is responsible for the creation of the TEI guidelines, which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. The TEI-C also provides a variety of supporting resources, including materials for learning the TEI guidelines, information on projects using the guidelines, TEI-related publications, and software developed for/adapted to the TEI guidelines.

The mission of DARIAH is to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts and to facilitate long-term access to, and use of, all European Arts and Humanities digital research data.

CHCI has more than 170 affiliates in 23 countries. Newcomers to DH may be especially interested in their consulting, mentoring, and evaluating services, which pair newer centers with experienced member organizations. The CHCI Web site is largely member-focused, with a searchable database of member organizations; links to affiliates; and a list of groups and projects. It also offers a small library of e-documents, as well as job listings, calls for papers, fellowships and funding opportunities, and conferences and programs.