I presently serve as Director of Litigation at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, a position I have held since May 2000. In October 2009 I was appointed as Co-Chair of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production, having served as NARA’s representative to The Sedona Conference since 2003 and on the WG1 Steering Committee since 2007. I also am an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, where I co-taught the first in the nation graduate level seminar on e-discovery at an “I” school in the Spring of 2009. As part of The Sedona Conference, I have served as Editor in Chief of The Sedona Confeerence Best Practices Commentary on the Use of Search and Information Retrieval Practices in E-Discovery (2007), and Co-Editor in Chief of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Achieving Quality in the E-Discovery Process (2009). I was a founding coordinator of the TREC Legal Track, an international research project evaluating search and retrieval methods used in ediscovery sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and served as coordinator of the Track between 2006 and 2009. I serve on various advisory boards, including as part of the Georgetown Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute. I frequently write and speak on subjects involving preservation of and access to electronic records, including public records. See my full CV (225K PDF) for additional details.
I intend for this website to feature a bibliography of legal references on the specific subject of search and information retrieval, including case law, law reviews, print and online articles, and blogs. When the website is further developed, I will encourage all interested parties to email me with additional references for inclusion on the site. My current email address: jason.baron@nara.gov.
