James Baker
Chair Of The Board Of Trustees at University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJames Baker is Professor and Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton, combining a historian’s rigor with over a decade of experience in digital cultural heritage. He leads interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of history, archives, and computational methods, and chairs the Board of Trustees for Programming Historian after a decade-long trusteeship. A Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he also contributes to research funding review and convenes digital history seminars at the Institute of Historical Research. Formerly a digital curator at the British Library and a senior lecturer at Sussex, he brings practical curatorial experience to scholarly and technical work. Colleagues note his self-deprecating coding attempts translate into pragmatic tool-building that supports reproducible scholarship. Based in Southampton, he is a founding member of the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition, reflecting a commitment to sustainability in research infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (85)
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
data-manipulation10
data-management10
api10
stable10
linked-open-data10
website-hosting10
static-site10
credit10
data-mining10
open-source10
text-analysis10
jekyll10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CuratorialVoice/CuratorialVoice.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Repo for Curatorial Voice website
Contributions:1 PR, 140 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
voicecuratorial
drjwbaker/geocities
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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