Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD)

Available

 * Association: http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/
 * Blog: http://infouma.hypotheses.org/

Description
AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) is the Italian professional association of digital humanists. If was founded in Florence, Italy, on March 25, 2011. Its first annual conference took place in Bologna, Italy, in December 2012. It is a member institution of the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH). The AIUCD-L mailing list AIUCD-L is its official mailing list of the association.

Annual conferences

 * Rome 2017. Il telescopio inverso: big data e distant reading nelle discipline umanistiche
 * Venice 2016. Digital editions: Representation, interoperability, text analysis and infrastructures
 * Turin 2015. Digital Humanities e beni culturali: quale relazione?
 * Bologna 2014. La metodologia della ricerca umanistica nell'ecosistema digitale
 * Padua 2013. Ricerca collaborativa e piattaforme condivise per l’Informatica umanistica
 * Firenze 2012. Un'agenda per l’informatica umanistica e la cultura digitale

Goals
The AIUCD aims to include not only professionals working on the Digital Literary Studies but on all fields of the Humanities, with an explicit mention of "archivi, biblioteche e musei" in the presentation page of the association website.

In line with the Italian tradition of studies, it fosters theoretical and methodological research aside projects realizations.