History of Digital Humanities

1940

Roberto Busa began using a computer to index every word in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas 

Roberto Busa and DH history

Digital humanities and digital literary's history started in the late 1940s, when Roberto Busa began using a computer to index every word in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Foundation of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing

Roy Wisbey founds the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at Cambridge University

Introduction: Literary Studies in the Digital Age

Roy Wisbey founds the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at Cambridge University

ADE Bulletin by Chyntia Self

It reminds us that computers have been part of our disciplinity lives for well over two decades now. During this time Digital Humanities has accumulated a robust professional apparatus that is probably more rooted in English that any other departmental home.

Cynthia Bulletin

The computers become a part of human lives (ADE).

first joint conference of ACH and ALLC

first in a series of conferences hosted by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing; this became the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and their international conference called Digital Humanities

Foundation of IATH

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) is founded at the University of Virginia

Book project

AndrewMc Neille, the original acquiring editor for the Blackwell "Companion to Humanities Computing" start to talking about the book project in April 2001 and by the end of November they had lined up contributors and were discussing the title for the contrat.

discussion about merging ACH and ALLC

This conversation about merging ACH and ALLC happened in a bar in Tuebingen

A Companion to Digital Humanities

Tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitizazion"

"The choice of potential name"

... They finally got things off the dime in Sweden at the 2004 ALLC/ACH and after waffling some more about  names like ICHIO, OHCO and others...

Companion to Digital Humanities

A work/book that has made it possible to learn more about the developments in digital work throughout history.

"The change"

In April 2005, they voted to go with ADHO, changin "A" from "Alliade" to "Alliance" .

Companion to Digital Humanities

In 2005 Blackweel's Companion to Digital Humanities had been published and the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organization had been established.

Launch DHI

NEH launched DHI under the chairmanship of Bruce Cole and with leadershio provided by Brett Bobley (agency's CIO).

Bobley describes the brainstorming ideas for DHI with NEH.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Lauched the Digital Humanities Initiative

Creation of centerNet

CenterNet is a coalition focused on "developing cooperative opportunities for centers, increasing advocacy for center funding and initiatives, and creating exchange and research opportunities for scholars and students."

Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Blackwell's second work that allowed us to learn more about the developments in digital work throughout history.

The Office of Digital Humanities

In 2008 the Digital Humanities Initiative became the Office of Digital Humanities, the designation of "office" assigning the program, and its budget line, a permanent place within the agency. 

Percents

Amanda French ran the number and concluded  that 48% of attendees at the DH conference were tweeting the sessions. And 3% of MLA convention attendees tweeted according to French's data out of 7,800 attendees (256 tweeted).

MLA

Big news for Modern Language Association by Annual Convention in Philadelphia. 

28 december 2009 William Pannapacker, one of the Chronicle of Higher Education's officially appointed bloggers for online Brainstrom.