Change ADHO. org
10 May 2017
Welcome to Change ADHO.org, a temporary website of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. 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.
Digital Humanities has grown so much the last ten years that the organizational structure of ADHO is not efficient any longer. At its yearly meeting on July 10, 2016, the ADHO Steering Committee approved a new governance framework and a new financial model. An Implementation Committee has started to work on a more detailed plan that will help to smooth the way for the official change to the new structure effective July 1, 2018. This web site is to communicate about the change.
From the Implementation Committee
New: Open For Feedback: We have posted the ADHO Foundation Recommendation for comment.
New: Open For Feedback: We have posted Executive Board Scenarios for comment.
New: Open For Feedback: We have posted Committee Recommendations for comment.
New: Open for Feedback: We have posted Proposed SIGs, Associate, and Affiliate Organization Recommendations for comment.
Open For Feedback: We have posted Proposed Governance Scenarios for comment.
Open For Feedback: We have posted Proposed Financial Scenarios for comment.
Read our Roadmap and give us feedback on it. Tell us if we are tackling the right questions.
Check out our Blog to keep up with what the Implementation Committee is doing.
This website has two aims: it presents information about what has already been decided about the new governance framework, and it explicitly invites remarks, ideas, and suggestions on all issues that are still open. You will find this information below, with the option to submit comments for those paragraphs where we need your view on things.
The ADHO Steering Committee and the Implementation Committee are very much looking forward to your input. We need your help to change the ADHO organization into an open, friendly, and efficient community that can continue to work on its mission to further Digital Humanities with more and more new organizations all over the world.
Karina van Dalen-Oskam,
chair of the ADHO Steering Committee
Recent Comments in this Document
June 23, 2018 at 6:02 pm
I’m in agreement with Elisabeth on the question of SIG representation, in that I think that COs (as currently constituted, largely by region) offer the primary point of membership for DH matters. I think SIGs are important, but I see a difference between interest groups and membership organizations
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June 23, 2018 at 5:59 pm
I support scenario 1, as it seems to strike the best balance between ensuring the continuing health of ADHO, moving ADHO towards a leaner organizational structure, and distributing decision-making power more equitably among the community of COs. At a moment when DH is proliferating across the globe, scenario 1 offers us the best chance to hear the voices of new organizations and new members while retaining the overall strength of the organization as a whole.
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June 21, 2018 at 7:48 pm
correction: my good example was to be DHN not a non existant DHD. The German speaking is called DHd.
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May 24, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Thanks
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May 24, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Thanks
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May 20, 2018 at 4:22 pm
[it currently has three Partner Organization: DH Benelux, Russian DH Network, Czech DH Initiative.]
This needs to be corrected, because EADH has only one Partner Organisation DH Benelux
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May 20, 2018 at 4:20 pm
[SIGs may be proposed by any group of ADHO members]
Members of ADHO are COs. Thus what is meant by members needs to be specified, for example “by any group of members of COs of ADHO”
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May 20, 2018 at 4:18 pm
[Note. There are currently 3 AOs: AIUCD (Italy); DHd (German-speaking); DHN (Nordic countries). All have a relationship with EADH as their partner CO.]
This needs to be corrected, because EADH has 5 AOs: AIUCD (Italy); DHd (German-speaking); DHN (Nordic countries), CZDHI (Czech), DH Russia (Russia)
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May 20, 2018 at 4:15 pm
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this term should not be used. It is not clear what it means. There is no definition of it anywhere
According to me B.1 Associate Organisations (AO) contains contradictions (see “allied to ADHO”).
I am also unsure whether ADHO should be responsible for determining the size of membership of an AO of a CO, for assigning it to a CO (there might be special cases which require such an assignement, but we should not make this the rule). I am against that ADHO establishes that an AO can be associated with more than one CO because this would make the handling of structural terms and finance unviable.
The whole matter of AOs should be discussed with EADH because it is up to now the only CO which has AOs. It has a lot of experience and can serve as a model for other COs which are thinking on having AOs.
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May 20, 2018 at 4:02 pm
My comment refers to AOs alone. If the members of ADHO are COs and if AOs are AOs of COs then the responsibility with respect to disbursements (the only exception might be Scenario 3) is the responsibility of the COs, i.e. ADHO has no influence / nothing to say on this.
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