Session organiser: Goldsmiths
Session trainer: Professor Les Back (Goldsmiths)
Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, situated on the ground floor of the Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths
Directions: Campus map and detailed directions
Conference blogging material: Writing a Blog Post and Going Digital Blog and The blog of the CHASE: Going Digital training programme

This is a one-day opening conference, which will include an overview of major (inter)national digital humanities resources and the programme’s key skills (creation, use and management of digital humanities materials). It will also explore the potential for using digital tools to re-imagine the forms and modes that humanities scholarship might take in the future, including multi-modal forms of representation and the relation between practice and written argument.

Session organiser: University of East Anglia (UEA)
Session trainer: Dr Chris Hanretty (UEA)
Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm
Location: Room 1.10 (or 1.11), located on the first floor of the building, University of East Anglia (London campus) Directions to UEA
Directions: Campus map
Workshop material: “how-to” guide

A full-day course, providing an overview of options for getting information from the internet in manageable forms, including: bulk downloading of documents; use of popular programming language, Python, and how to screen scrape take information from multiple web-sites and turn it into simple flat spreadsheets).

Session organiser: Essex Network Centre
Session trainer: Dr Udo Kruschwitz and Dr Massimo Poesio (UoE)
Time:9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Room 3.008, University of Essex (UoE) Interactive campus map to find room 
Directions: Campus map, Public transport (bus) drops off close to “under the podia”
Workshop material: "how-to 1” guide, "how to 2 guide" and "how to 3 guide"

A full-day workshop, providing an introduction to text-mining (extracting specific kinds of information from texts) and its key skills, including: text categorisation, text clustering, concept/entity extractions, creating taxonomies for digital search facilities.

Case study: Essex computer scientists' work with the Bridgeman Art Library's digital collections.

Session organiser: Open University
Session trainer: Dr Elton Barker and Ms Mia Ridge (OU)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Michael Young Building meeting rooms 1,2,3, Open University (OU). Once you have arrived on campus, please make your way directly to the Michael Young Buildings, where signage will direct you to the room.
Directions: Campus map. Further down the page there is advice on getting to the campus from Milton Keynes Central Station by bus.
Workshop material: “how-to” guide

A full-day course, drawing on expertise developed in externally-funded projects (Hestia, GAP and Pelagios), for which the visualisation of data has been an important element of consideration in its own right. This course offers a survey of major online humanities data and some of the tools available for visualising it. Participants will gain hands-on experience of techniques used to convert textual into visual data.

Session organiser: Courtauld
Session trainer: Mr Tom Bilson (Courtauld)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: IT Centre, Courtauld
Directions: Campus map
Workshop material: “ ‘How-to’ guides and material

A full-day workshop, run by the Courtauld Institute of Art, enabling participants to create and edit a personal blog (using WordPress), as a means to publicise their research topic. The workshop will cover: choosing a name for the blog and registering it with WordPress; choosing and setting up a design theme; the preparation of images (scanning, editing) and text; tagging and keywording entries and links to other blogs.

Session organiser: Goldsmiths Graduate School
Session trainer: Professor Les Back, Dan McQuillan and David Moats (Goldsmiths)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: New Academic Building, Room NAB305
Directions: Campus map
Workshop material: Using Social Media - program and link used and Going Digital - D Moats

A full-day workshop, providing an introduction to the complexities of researching digital social life and of using digital devices (such as search engines and social media) as research tools.

Case studies: two challenges that digitization poses for empirical investigation - real-time research and public engagement.

Session organiser: UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Session trainer: Dr Veerle van den Eynden and Dr Libby Bishop (UoE)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Room: Location: Social Science Research Centre Building, Board Room 5.B.24, UK Data Archive, University of Essex (UoE) Interactive campus map to find room
Directions: Campus map, Public transport (bus) drops off close to “under the podia”
                  Visit the Data Archive
Workshop material: Anonymisation of Data and Data Copyright Issues and Data Life Cycle and Management Planning and Documenting and Contextualising your Data and Ethical and Legal Issues in Data Sharing and Formatting your Data and Issues in Re-Using Qualitative Data and Qualitative Data - Transcriptions

A full-day workshop, run within the UK Data Archive. Participants will gain knowledge and professional skills in the handling and management of research data, evidence and sources. The workshop will cover all kinds of social science and humanities research data covering the key areas of data management; sharing, managing, planning, documenting, formatting and storing data, including data security, ethics and consent, and copyright.

After attending the workshop you will:

• have a greater understanding of what it means to manage and store research data
• appreciate the professional skills required to look after research data properly
• understand how roles and responsibilities can be assigned to projects to meet ethical and legal requirements
• be empowered to feel confident to take back issues to your own research environments

Session organiser: Goldsmiths Graduate School
Session trainer: Professor Les Back and Ben Pester(Goldsmiths)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: New Academic Building, Room NAB305, Goldsmiths
Directions: Campus map

A full-day workshop.  Participants will learn how to create, edit and contribute to humanities e-journals and consider the challenges of re-thinking classic research formats and outputs (monographs, journals, conferences). The workshop will also offer a survey of other innovative forms used to share and 'publish' humanities research.

Case studies: Journal of Computational Culture and glits-e (a creative writing journal).

Session organiser: British Cartoon Archive, Canterbury
Session trainer: Dr Nick Hiley (UoK)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: British Cartoon Archive, located on Level 1 of the Templeman Library, University of Kent (UoK)
Directions: Campus map

A full-day workshop. Participants will receive a practical introduction to image digitization processes, using examples from the British Cartoon Archive's collection, which is held at the Templeman Library, at the University of Kent.

Session organiser: ESCALA, University of Essex
Session trainer: Dr Joanne Harwood and Dr Sarah Demelo (UoE)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: 6.106 in the morning and 6.126 in the afternoon, Colchester Campus, University of Essex (UoE). You can use our Interactive campus map to find directions to the room.
Directions: Campus map, Public transport (bus) drops off close to “under the podia”

A full-day workshop. Participants will be introduced to the challenges of creating a user-friendly online resource for museum collections.

Case study: the digitization of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), an Arts Council accredited museum based at the University of Essex. ESCALA is a partner to Tate and to firstsite.

Session organiser: East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich
Session trainer: Ms Rowena Burgess and Dr Richard Maguire (UEA)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: The Green Room at the Norfolk Record Office/East Anglian Film Archive site
                Enter the Archive through the main entrance and the Green Room is the first room on the left
Directions: how to find us and Map of Norwich Town Centre

A full-day workshop. This workshop will provide an introduction to online design and illustrate ways of promoting digital resources within local enterprise and engagement activities.

Case study: East Anglian Film Archive's creation of a public resource for local landscapes and the visual past.

Session organiser: Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Session trainer: Dr Sanja Bahun (UoE), Ms Heidi Wilkins (UoE) and Dr Sarah Atkinson (Adventure Pictures, OU, University of Brighton)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre Building 10 (LTB10), University of Essex (UoE) Interactive campus map to find room
Directions: Campus map, Public transport (bus) drops off close to “under the podia”

A full-day course. Participants will learn how British director Sally Potter's archive for her film 'Orlando' was turned into a digital resource for film studies students and researchers in wider communities, called SP-ARK. They will also get acquainted with 'The Anatomy of a Film', another type of digital archive, that records all the stages of, and participants in, the production of Potter's most recent film, 'Ginger and Rose'. Participants will also be introduced to creating taxonomies for digital film archive users, the use of HTML5 video applications, and the utilisation of the internet for participatory learning. Sally Potter's films will be screened as part of the course.

Session organiser: University of Kent
Session trainer: Dr Catherine Richardson (UoK)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: To be advised, Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library
Directions: Campus map

A full-day workshop. Participants will learn how digital resources can be used to help local communities to access local archives and how digital tools can enable different communities of users to explore unique documents. Working with the rich collection of manuscripts at Canterbury Cathedral, including early modern travel diaries and accounts of religious communities in exile, and, electronically, with the illuminated medieval gems of Rouen, you will explore the many ways in which technology can enhance our understanding of and engagement with the past.

Case study: DocExplore, a partnership between Engineering and Digital Arts (Kent), the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Kent), Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library and University of Rouen.

Session organiser: University of Essex and University of East Anglia
Session trainer: Professor Florence Myles (UoE) and Dr Marie-Noelle Guillot (UEA)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: 1.10 or 1.11 (to be confirmed), Floor 1 (accessed by staircase or lift from the lobby).  University of East Anglia, London campus.  All visitors please report to the reception upon arrival.
Directions: Campus map and Directions to UEA (London)

A full-day workshop. This provides an introduction to the use of digital technologies to create, manage and analyse language data. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the use of CHILDES software for first and second language acquisition research (as used for example in the FLLOC and SPLLOC projects - French/Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora www.flloc.soton.ac.uk). The workshop will also demonstrate how concordancing software such as Wordsmith can be used for textual and linguistic analysis more generally, with application to other humanities domains of expertise.

Session organiser: Sussex School of Media, Film and Music/Digital and Social Media/Informatics/Attenborough Centre
Session trainer: Dr Caroline Bassett, Professor Sally Jane Norman, Dr Martin White and Mr Kirk Woolford (UoS)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Attenborough Centre Creativity Zone, University of Sussex (UoS) Pevensey III, Room C7
Directions: Campus map

A full-day workshop, providing an introduction to the Motion in Place Platform, enabling the study of relationships between human movement and sites of all kinds, including heritage sites. We will look at different forms of motion data (GIS, full body motion capture, etc), focussing on modelling and serious games technologies and on the ways we can create and work with digital/virtual movement and artefacts.

Session organiser: Open University
Session trainer: Dr Paul Lawrence (OU)
Time: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Room 2, the Open University Camden Town 1-11 Hawley Crescent Camden Town London NW1 8NP
Directions: Map and directions. Please could attendees report to Reception on arrival.

A one-day conference, offering all those taking part in Going Digital (either as trainers or participants) the opportunity to reflect on the skills they have developed and to debate the current and future impact of digital technologies on humanities research.