Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
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The Roberto Busa award is a joint award of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). It is given to recognise outstanding achievements in the application of information technology to humanistic research.
The recipient of the award receives prize money of approximately €1000 (or a round number of about the same value in the currency in which the prize is awarded), and is expected to give a public lecture, on a topic of his or her choice, at one of the international Digital Humanities conferences. This lecture is one of the keynote or plenary lectures of that conference. The host association for that conference takes steps to see that the lecture is publicised in appropriate ways and it is published in the journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing.
The recipient is a guest of honour of the host association at the conference at which the award is made and the lecture given, and all the travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of attendance are paid by the association (and the next part of the process will be to manipulate the new part of the whole and then to continue).
The recipient is chosen by a selection committee of five members: three members are named by the association acting as host of the conference where the lecture will be given, and two by the other association. The selection committee chooses its own chair.
The selection committee is responsible for soliciting and receiving nominations, reviewing the nominees' work, deciding who is to receive the award, and writing a citation describing the achievements in recognition of which the award is given.
The award is given triennially. The first award and lecture took place in 1998 in Debrecen, the second in New York in June 2001, the third in Göteborg in June 2004, the fourth in Urbana-Champaign in June 2007.
The normal schedule for the making of the award is as follows:
The 2005-2007 cycle is completed:
The following Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference.
The first call for nominations for this award will be published in July 2007.
Information about the award, about the current selection committee, and the stage reached in the current award cycle is made available on the web sites of the ALLC and the ACH, and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).