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{{Short description|International professional society for digital humanities}}
The '''Association for Computers and the Humanities''' ('''ACH''') is the primary international professional society for [[digital humanities]]. ACH was founded in 1978.<ref>Hockey, Susan. "[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ The History of Humanities Computing]". In: A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.</ref> 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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tei-c.org/about/history/|title=TEI: History|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> 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 [[Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations|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.<ref name=jstor>{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/journal/comphuma|title=Computers and the Humanities|publisher=[[JSTOR]]|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref> (In 2005 it was renamed to '''''Language Resources and Evaluation'''''.<ref name=jstor/>
*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)
*[[Society for Digital Humanities|Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques]] (CSDH-SCHN)
Other related Organizations:
*[[Association for Computational Linguistics]]
*[[Text Encoding Initiative]]
==References==
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==External links==
*{{oweb|http://ach.org/}}
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