James Baker

Digital Forensics in the House of Lords: six themes relevant to historians (Part Two)

By James Baker, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. This two-part post was simultaneously published at Cradle in Caricature.  In Part One of this blog series on the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee  inquiry into forensic science, I discussed oral evidence pertaining to digital forensics – a branch of forensic science concerned with the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices – and their relevance to my home discipline, History.

Digital Forensics in the House of Lords: six themes relevant to historians (Part One)

By James Baker, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. In 2017 the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee opened an inquiry into forensic science. The inquiry is still open and has fours areas of focus: the forensic science research landscape, the use of forensic science in the Criminal Justice System, standards and regulation, and digital forensics.

Building new communities as a Fellow

By James Baker, University of Sussex. Applying to become a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow was one of the best decisions of my career. Now that may sound a little hyperbolic, but looking back over the four years since I made the application to become a fellow, so many experiences I've enjoyed, encounters I've had, and connections I've made can be traced back to that decision.

Archiving code and software shared with research: journal, author and re-user perspectives

By Naomi Penfold, Nikoleta Glynatsi, Yo Yehudi, James Baker, Steve Crouch

This post is part of the Collaborations Workshops 2018 speed blogging series.

Library Carpentry: software skills workshops for librarians

By James Baker, Lecturer in Digital History and Archives, University of Sussex, and Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

Scholarship in software, software as scholarship: a view from the humanities

By James Baker, Curator, Digital Research, British Library @j_w_baker

There are complex challenges in the humanities around software sustainability. For if it is true that humanists rely on software to do research, and increasingly software developed by their community, many if not most do not value the use of software and their nascent systems of credit for good software development and reuse are fragile. And so if the humanities are to make the best of the vast and growing digitised and born-digital corpora held by research libraries, key stakeholders in the field must ascribe…

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