C. Sean Burns

News

September 12, 2020

I gave a talk for one of our monthly College research presentations on Functional Search Problems among MEDLINE Databases (see link to Zoom for the recorded video). Slides are on GitHub.

July 29, 2020

I gave a presentation on increasing participation in online discussion forums to members of my college. The notes and slides are on GitHub and the video is on my School's website, along with videos on flipped classroom instruction from some of my wonderful colleagues. These may be helpful to others teaching online for the first time.

Research

Recent Manuscripts

• Paper in-press and due out March 2021, titled What documents cannot do; Revisiting Polanyi and the tacit knowledge dilemma in Information & Culture.
• Paper under second round of review, titled Methodological issues with search in MEDLINE: A longitudinal query analysis (preprint link to bioRxiv) in PLOS ONE.

Recent Conference Papers

• Paper on Evaluating MEDLINE: Exploring the mechanisms responsible for variances across platforms accepted to EAHIL in Łódź, Poland. With Robert Shapiro, Tyler Nix, and Jeffrey Huber. June 2020. The conference has been postponed to Autumn 2020 due to COVID-19 (I will unlikely be able to go during this time).
• Paper on Bibliographic subject analysis of fake news accepted to QQML 2020 Barcelona, Spain. With Jenny Bossaller. May 2020. Presented virtually due to COVID-19.

Work in Progress

• Research and Creative Activies grant awarded for a fake news project titled How news articles as documents influence perceptions of fake news in the amount of $2,336. With Renee Kaufmann and Anthony Limperos. February 2020. University of Kentucky, College of Communication and Information.

Recent Publications

• Search result outliers among MEDLINE platforms published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association with Robert Shapiro, Tyler Nix, and Jeffrey Huber. 2019.

Teaching

Spring 2021

I will be on a sabbatical and will be writing a book and preparing a grant submission.

Fall 2020

I'm teaching an extra course this semester to help with pandemic related issues. Normally it's a 2/2 course load.

ICT 418: Linux Systems Administration: Undergraduate course covering systems administration using the Fedora GNU/Linux operating system. Topics include Bash scripting, managing users, installing, securing, and managing services such as MySQL, and more.

LIS 690: Electronic Resource Management: Graduate course on managing electronic resources for libraries. Topics covered include the technologies and systems involved, legal issues such as managing copyright, and more.

ICT 201: Personal Knowledge Management: Undergraduate course on managing personal information and knowledge work flows.

Spring 2020

ICT 420: Semantic Web Development: Undergraduate course focused on HTML5, CSS3, JSON-LD, and Git as well as usability and accessibility. Main software tool: text editor.

LIS/ICT 658: Knowledge Management: Graduate course on organizational knowledge management with some emphasis on disaster and risk management and communication. Although this is an online course, students are central in selecting specific readings.

Current Git Repos

• The medline project includes R code for a research project about MEDLINE databases.
• The fake news project includes R code for a study of database terms related to fake news.

WWW/Blog Entries

1. Not That 1984
2. On the Historical Person
3. A Pictorial List
4. On Covid19 and Keystone Species
5. s/awk/R/
6. s/sed/awk/
7. On Marriage
8. On Teaching Linux
9. Dark Nights
10. On Revising
11. On Distractions
12. A Distro Hop
13. On Conspiracy Theories
14. Earth's Holocaust
15. Come Sail Away
16. On the Bookshelf
17. The Chronicles
18. Past Colleagues
19. On Consistency
20. Restaurant Dreams
21. 35 Days
22. An Action Under Which Description
23. The Slow Down
24. I'd Rather
25. It's the Little Things
26. On Research Speed
27. On Stress Relief
28. On Sheltering
29. On Social Distancing
30. Losing a Walker Friend
31. When a Baby Cries as a Toddler
32. Converting Markdown to HTML with Table of Contents Using Pandoc
33. Switching Window Managers
34. Remembering Some Text
35. Some Observations on Usability Pertaining to a Child
36. Bad Superblock
37. A Quick Bash One-Liner and Children
38. Tidyverse Skeptic Too
39. Make Email Fun
40. Some Routines I Find Calming
41. The Product
42. The Walkers
43. On Solitude
44. On Writing and its Tools
45. Using Ed, The Standard Text Editor
46. Keeping it Minimal