This web site holds the documents developed by the ADHO Work Group of the ALLC and ACH. The contents of the web site are confidential to the Council and members of the ACH, the Committee and members of the ALLC, and the Council and members of COSH/COCH.
ADHO was 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, and presented a set of recommendations at the annual ACH-ALLC Conference at the University of Georgia in May 2003. These recommendations, and the associated discussion papers, may be found by following this link.
The recommendations were adopted by both Associations at their Council/Committee meetings at the Georgia conference. The work group was then asked to proceed with developing a protocol for forming the umbrella organisation. The working title of 'ADHO' (Association of Digital Humanities Organisations) did not find favour, and subsequently the title 'IFDiSH' has been proposed: International Federation of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
Following the Georgia meetings, the President of ACH and Chair of ALLC sought the views of their respective association memberships, with a view to incorporating suggestions in the development of the protocol.
For the Association meetings at the ALLC-ACH Conference 2004 in Göaut;teborg, Sweden, a draft protocal has been drafted. Associated with this are draft protocols for the planning and running of future IFDiSH conferences, and for the establishing an IFDiSH Publications Committee to develop an overall publications policy, and specifically to investigate the establishment of an electronic journal.
During the course of the work, a proposal was received from COSH/COCH that it should have the status of a 'regional chapter' within IFDiSH, and this was provisionally accepted by the ADHO Committee, subject to discussion and approval at the Sweden meetings.
The draft protocols can be found by following the links below. If the protocols are adopted in principle by the associations, it is anticipated that further work will be required to turn them into the formal documents required for the final establishment of IFDiSH.