Digital Scholarship Publications and Conferences

Journals

  • DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (formerly Literary & Linguistic Computing) is an international, peer-reviewed journal (Oxford University Press, on behalf of EADH and ADHO) which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the field of what is currently called the Digital Humanities. Long and short papers report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research and include results of research projects, descriptions and evaluations of tools, techniques, and methodologies, and reports on work in progress.
  • DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal from The Association for Computers and the Humanities. Launched in 2007, DHQ publishes articles, reviews, case studies, and opinion pieces on all aspects of digital humanities, as well as guest-edited thematic and language-specific special issues.
  • Digital Studies / Le champ numérique is a refereed academic journal that serves as an Open Access area for formal scholarly activity and as a resource for researchers in the Digital Humanities. DS/CN articles focus on the intersection of technology and humanities research, including on the application of technology to cultural, historical, and social problems, on the societal and institutional context of such applications, and the history and development of the field of Digital Humanities.
  • The International Journal of Digital Humanities is a peer-reviewed, hybrid OA academic journal with a focus on digital media and the development, application and reflection of digital research methodology in the Humanities. It is concerned with the history, current practice and theory of Digital Humanities. The journal publishes original research articles and reviews on topics including, but not limited to

    – Digital cultural heritage with a special focus on born digital documents / archives
    – Data visualization, information retrieval, statistical analysis, big data
    – Natural language processing, named entity recognition, topic modelling, text mining
    – Digital scholarly editing
    – Semantic web technology, network theory
    – 3D modelling, digital visualization
    – Teaching Digital Humanities

  • Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture. Its aim is to promote high quality scholarship that applies computational and quantitative methods to the study of cultural objects (sound, image, text), cultural processes (reading, listening, searching, sorting, hierarchizing) and cultural agents (artists, editors, producers, composers). Articles combine theoretical sophistication, computational expertise, and grounding in a particular field towards the crafting of thought-provoking arguments about how culture works at significantly larger scales than traditional research. Cultural Analytics publishes in three sections: Articles, Data Sets, and Debates.
  • Kairos is a refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Since its first issue in January of 1996, the mission of Kairos has been to publish scholarship that examines digital and multimodal composing practices, promoting work that enacts its scholarly argument through rhetorical and innovative uses of new media. Kairos publishes “webtexts,” which are texts authored specifically for web publication.
  • Computational Linguistics is the longest-running publication devoted exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. This highly regarded quarterly offers university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of all the facets of research on language.
  • Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, the official journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, publishes selected papers from the annual TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting and special issues based on topics or themes of interest to the community or in conjunction with special events or meetings associated with TEI.
  • The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (JITP) promotes open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research. “Educational institutions have often embraced instrumentalist conceptions and market-driven implementations of technology that overdetermine its uses in academic environments. Such approaches underestimate the need for critical engagement with the integration of technological tools into pedagogical practice. The JITP will endeavor to counter these trends by recentering questions of pedagogy in our discussions of technology in higher education. The journal will also work to change what counts as scholarship—and how it is presented, disseminated, and reviewed—by allowing contributors to develop their ideas, publish their work, and engage their readers using multiple formats.”
  • Humanist Studies & the Digital Age is devoted to the study and reformulation of received philological and philosophical ideas of writing and reading in the Digital Era. It is part of the Directory of Open Access Journals.
  • The International Journal for Digital Art History seeks to gather current developments in the field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the subject both from Art History and Information Science.
  • The Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities is concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, with tools provided by computing such as data visualization, information retrieval, statistics, text mining by publishing scholarly work beyond the traditional humanities.

Defunct / Inactive

  • The Journal of Digital Humanities has been on hiatus since 2014. It was a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features scholarship, tools, and conversations produced, identified, and tracked by members of the digital humanities community through Digital Humanities Now.
  • Frontiers in Digital Humanities is now closed for submission. Its goal was to publish rigorously peer-reviewed research from Digital History to Big Data, providing a community platform for the Humanities in the digital age.
  • Computers in the Humanities Working Papers were “an interdisciplinary series of refereed publications on computer-assisted research” (1990s-2009).
  • Vectors last published in 2013. Operating at the intersection of culture, creativity, and technology, the journal focused on the myriad ways technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations, both in the past and in the present. Utilizing a peer-reviewed format and under the guidance of an international board, Vectors featured submissions and specially-commissioned works comprised of moving- and still-images; voice, music, and sound; computational and interactive structures; social software; and more – works that need to exist in multimedia.
  • Digital Literary Studies last published in 2016. It published scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources.

Conferences

  • Digital Humanities is the annual ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations) conference and the largest event in the field. It is typically held between late June and early August, and rotates each year between North America, Europe, and the rest of the world. DH 2022 will be held in Tokyo, Japan, and DH 2023 will be held in Graz, Austria.
  • The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) holds a biannual conference in the US.
  • IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) typically holds a late fall working meeting and a spring / summer conference each year. The 2020 conference was scheduled to be hosted by Harvard in Boston, but has been postponed. The 2021 conference is free and online and will take place from June 22-24.
  • 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. The annual HASTAC conference is hosted by affiliate locations around the globe. The Spring 2022 HASTAC Conference will be hosted by the Pratt Institute in NYC.

Book Series

  • Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press) is a hybrid print/digital book series that explores debates in the field as they emerge. With biannual volumes that highlight current issues in the field, and special volumes on topics of pressing interest, Debates in the Digital Humanities tracks the field as it continues to grow.
  • Digital Culture Books: Digital Humanities (University of Michigan Press) features rigorous research that advances understanding of the nature and implications of the changing relationship between humanities and digital technologies. Books, monographs, and experimental formats that define current practices, emergent trends, and future directions are accepted.
  • Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Routledge) covers a wide range of disciplines and provides an authoritative reflection of the ‘state of the art’ in the application of computing and technology. The titles in this peer-reviewed series are critical reading not just for experts in digital humanities and technology issues, but for all scholars working in arts and humanities who need to understand the issues around digital research.
  • Topics in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press)
  • Digital Humanities: Knowledge, Thought and Practice (OpenBook Publishers) presents cutting-edge research that investigate the links between the digital and other disciplines paving the ways for further investigations and applications that take advantage of new digital media to present knowledge in new ways.

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