[1] ADHO's constituent organizations are: The effort to establish the alliance began in Tübingen, Germany, at the ALLC/ACH conference in 2002: a steering committee was appointed at the ALLC/ACH meeting in 2004, in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the executive committees of the ACH and Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) approved the governance and conference protocols at the 2005 meeting in Victoria, Canada.

[1] In 2007, the Alliance Steering Committee voted to enfranchise The Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) of Canada.

[21] The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations sponsors special interest groups to facilitate the sharing of ideas about new and innovative problems.

[38] Subsequent winners included:[39] Antonio Zampolli Prize is awarded every three years to an important project or for a major accomplishment.

[42] Paul Fortier Prize is given to the best young scholar paper at the annual Digital Humanities conference.