This web site holds the documents developed by the ADHO Work Group of the ALLC and ACH (in conjunction with the TEI Consortium, NINCH and the STS). The contents of the web site are confidential to the Council of the ACH, the Committee of the ALLC, the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, and the members of the ADHO work group.

ADHOC is a joint work group of the ACH and ALLC, charged with examining possibilities for closer collaboration between the two organisations and within the field of digital humanities more widely. The work group was established by association committee meetings in July 2002, with the goal of presenting recommendations at the annual conference at the University of Georgia in May 2003.

The web site contains the recommendations of work group, arranged in the following sections:

• Introduction and overview
• Organisational structure
• Membership & Relationships
• Finances
• Publications
• Conferences
• Activities and initiatives
• Internationalism & multi-lingualism

Each section is linked to a discussion paper which addresses the issues relevant to that section under the headings:
Aims & objectives;
Current practice;
Range of possibilities;
Proposals;
Financial implications;
Transition requirements/options.

This web site also holds the terms of reference of the work group and some of the background documentation it used.

Recommendations

• Executive summary of recommendations, with links to discussion papers

Terms of Reference and background information