Getting involved in the digital humanities community is a great way to learn about new projects and scholarship, meet collaborators from other disciplines, and find venues for your own work. There are numerous digital humanities and digital scholarship groups to choose from, ranging from local efforts on campus to international organizations.
Harvard
- Arts and Humanities Research Computing, informally known as DARTH (Digital Arts and Humanities), is the go-to Harvard group for Arts & Humanities faculty looking for a partner on a digital project. We provide consultation, technical development, and project management for faculty digital research initiatives at any stage in the project lifecycle. DARTH staff are also key members of the DSSG (below) and frequently run digital methods seminars and workshops through that organization.
- The Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) brings together Harvard faculty and staff with technical and pedagogical expertise to support faculty, students, and staff interested in incorporating digital methods into their teaching and research. The DSG organizes a year-round seminar series to provide training and instruction in digital methods; maintains digital scholarship infrastructures, such as Scalar as a Service and Omeka as a Service; and runs regular office hours and consultations. Check out the current calendar of events.
- The Harvard Certificate Program in Digital Scholarship is sponsored by the DSG and provides a structured framework through which graduate students can acquire competency in digital methods and demonstrate these skills in the job market. It is sponsored by the DSG.
- metaLAB @ Harvard is an idea foundry, knowledge-design lab, and production studio experimenting in the networked arts and humanities. The metaLAB project series publishes book length monographs and essay collections that sit between media history and speculative design. metaLAB is an institutional unit within the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
- The Harvard Library Digital Scholarship Group focuses on instruction and research at the intersection of natural language processing and immersive visualization.
- Numerous other Harvard groups whose primary directive is not digital humanities also support or engage in digital scholarship. The DSG maintains a list of Harvard DS organizations, and the Research Support website maintains a list of services (subgrouped by provider). Check these out see if there is a team in your area, or get in touch with DARTH with questions.
Ivy Plus
- Brown University: the Center for Digital Scholarship provides expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication.
- University of Chicago: the UChicago Digital Humanities website functions as a locator hub for various other services, including the UChicago Center for Digital Scholarship, the Humanities Computing unit, the Digital Library Development Center, the Digital Humanities Forum, and the MA in Digital Studies Program.
- Columbia University: the Digital Scholarship library unit is committed to collaborating with students and faculty in the creation of new modes of knowledge creation. The Digital Humanities Center (DHC), located in Butler Library, is a research and instructional facility designed to help Columbia faculty and students incorporate computer-based textual, bibliographic, image, and video information into their research, study, and teaching.
- Cornell University: the Digital CoLab at Cornell's Olin Library supports new and experimental approaches to research and teaching. The Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities supports a small interdisciplinary cohort of Cornell graduate students who together investigate approaches to digital scholarship through collaborative workshops, readings, discussion, and work on independent projects. Cornell participates in the New York City Digital Humanities Group (NYCDH).
- Dartmouth College: the Dartmouth DH community is connected through the Leslie Center's Digital Humanities Network. Dartmouth's Digital Humanities and Social Engagement (DHSE) cluster brings together two broad areas of scholarship, teaching, and social change: Digital Humanities and Social Engagement.
- Duke University: the Duke University DH website aggregates information about numerous Duke DH communities, most notably The Digital Humanities Initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (DHI@FHI), which runs the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge.
- Johns Hopkins University: The Johns Hopkins Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is a small interdisciplinary research center focused on unsupervised machine learning, knowledge representation and augmentation, and interpretable models.
- MIT: the Programs in Digital Humanities are a vibrant community of practitioners who use state-of-the-art digital tools to enrich education and research in the humanities. Our programs integrate digital and humanities education, teaching, and research.
- University of Pennsylvania: the Price Lab for Digital Humanities is the major DH hub at UPenn and provides week-long digital humanities training opportunities (Dream Lab), Mellon-funded fellowship opportunities, a project directory, and supports the undergraduate Digital Humanities Minor and Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.
- Princeton University: the Center for Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary research center that brings together faculty, staff, students, and community partners working at the intersection of the humanities and technology.
- Stanford University: Stanford is home to several DH communities, including the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) within the Stanford Libraries, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the Digital Humanities Focal Group (DHFG) within Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and the Stanford Literary Lab.
- Yale University: the Yale University Library DHLab offers space, community, and resources for Yale scholars who are using computational methods to pursue research questions in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences
Boston Area
- The Greater Boston DH Consortium is an informal association of educational and cultural institutions in New England committed to the collaborative development of teaching, learning, and scholarship in the digital humanities and computational social sciences. They host an annual conference as well as virtual and in-person community calls. Join the Boston DH listserv for community announcements.
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Other Boston and New England universities are also doing fantastic work in the digital
humanities space. Here's a selection of of their DH/DS groups:
- Northeastern: The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks is a center for digital humanities and computational social science, and the Digital Scholarship Group is part of Northeastern University Library's digital scholarship services, supporting digital modes of research, publication, and collaboration at Northeastern
- Tufts: Digital Humanities at Tufts is a collaborative initiative between faculty, staff, and students from across the campuses.
- Boston University: provides support through Digital Scholarship Services (DiSc) and the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University
- Boston College: the Boston College Digital Scholarship (BCDS) group facilitates data-driven research, digital project creation, digital scholarship-based teaching, digital publishing, and scholarly communication
Beyond
- 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. ADHO host the major Digital Humanities conference each year, and represents numerous constituent organizations primarily organized by region.
- The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities which supports and disseminates research and cultivates a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is the US member of ADHO.
- International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) refers to both a set of open standards for improving and sharing digitized collections (images, deep zoom, A/V time-based playback, annotation, and more) and the community of users and developers who work within this ecosystem. The IIIF community is comprised of and driven by libraries, museums, archives, software companies, and other organizations working together to create, test, refine, implement, and promote the IIIF specifications. Harvard is an active member of the IIIF community, and was scheduled to host the main IIIF conference in 2020. If you work on visual materials, this is a group to check out!
- The Digital Humanities Slack provides a Slack workspace for the broad DH community. It has over 50 "channels" that promote informal convesration and networking around specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, and conferences. No DH background is required to join.Join here or check out the code of conduct for more info.
- Bluesky is gradually replacing Twitter as a place for informal academic conversation. Check out this guide from the UVA Scholar's Lab as a starting point for accounts to follow.
- HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists changing the way we teach and learn. Our 16,000+ members from over 400+ affiliate organizations share ideas, news, tools, research, insights, pedagogy, methods, and projects – including Digital Humanities and other born-digital scholarship – and collaborate on various HASTAC initiatives.