The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organization formed in 2005 initially to coordinate the activities of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (founded in 1978) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (founded in 1973). In 2007, the Canada-based Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI) joined the Alliance.

Devoted to the encouragement and exploration of the digital humanities in all its forms, ADHO's activities encompass the publication of

peer reviewed journals:

The Open Content Alliance (OCA), created in 2005 to bring books and other material online, currently comprises more than 80 members--universities, public libraries, and commercial companies working together and embracing the values of openness central to the tradition of the creation of the Internet. Our goal is to build a digital archive of global content for universal access.

For thousands of years, humans have been putting their knowledge in books to pass on for future generations. Today, we have to have these materials in digital form, and we have to have them in a form where we can access and use them in new and different ways, as an engine for research, learning, and discovery, even if in ways not originally intended. I think that so far, as a culture, we have been negligent in our responsibility to perform this task: not because we don't have the materials, but because we haven't put them into the formats that new generations expect.