Subject Guides: Digital Humanities: Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

Networking

There are many ways to find out about research in humanities computing or digital humanities. You can search on social media with the #digitalhumanities. Below are some links that will help you to learn more about projects, scholars and work being conducted in the digital humanities.

CenterNet: An International Network of Digital Humanities Centres
Dan Choen's Digital Humanities Blog
dh+lib Provides a communal space where librarians, archivits, LIS graduate students and information specialists can contribute to conversations on digital humanities and libraries.
Digital Humanities Now
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
Humanities Computing Media Centre The mandate of the HCMC is to further research, teaching and learning in the faculty of Humanities, in particular the fields of Humanities Computing and Language Learning, and those aspects of other fields involving audio, video or computing technology at the University of Victoria. They have a blog site that may be of interest.
Theoretia.ca (Geoffrey Rockwell's Blog)

Associations

Association for Computers in the Humanities The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. They support this community by disseminating research, offering conferences, publishing, and facilitating other outreach activities.
Canadian Association for Research Computing in the Arts CIRCA, The Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts, fosters the development of new computing methodologies and new computer-based resources for research and teaching in the humanities and advances the state of humanities research computing at the University of Alberta.
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities This group supports Canadian humanists who are engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation.
DARIAH- Digital Reseach Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the humanities and arts.
European Association for Digital Humanities The EADH brings together and represents the Digital Humanities in Europe across the entire spectrum of disciplines that research, develop, and apply digital humanities methods and technology. These include art history, cultural studies, history, image processing, language and literature studies, manuscripts studies, and musicology, amongst others. The EADH also supports the formation of DH interest groups in Europe that are deﬁned by region, language, methodological focus or other criteria.