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 Publications

• Editorial on Retrieving arguments and support after publication: Archiving links in communication research published in Communication Studies with Patric Spence. 2020.
• Research paper on Search result outliers among MEDLINE platforms published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association with Robert Shapiro, Tyler Nix, and Jeffrey Huber. 2019.

Current Manuscripts

• Research paper in-press and due out March 2021, titled What documents cannot do; Revisiting Polanyi and the tacit knowledge dilemma in Information & Culture.
• Research paper under fourth round of review, titled Methodological issues with search in MEDLINE: A longitudinal query analysis (preprint link to bioRxiv) in PLOS ONE.
• Research paper in writing and analysis stage examining how the presentation of and metadata in news articles influences perceptions of fake news, with Renee Kaufmann and Anthony Limperos.

Recent Conference Papers

• 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 Activities 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.

Teaching

Spring 2021

I will be on a sabbatical 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. Lectures and demonstration transcripts are stored in my GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/cseanburns/linux_sysadmin

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. Lectures are stored in my GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/cseanburns/electronic_resource_mgmt

ICT 201: Personal Knowledge Management: Undergraduate course on managing personal information and knowledge work flows. I would share my lectures and resources for this course, but I'm working on a major revision and will wait until that revision is complete.

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, SFTP, GitHub. Notes and demos are stored in my GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/cseanburns/webdev

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

Research Repos

• The medline project includes R code for a research project about MEDLINE databases.

Systems Administration

I maintain two Linux servers for colleagues and students at my School to support class activities. I use one dedicated server to host WordPress and Omeka installations that support the library science and the information and communication technologies (ICT) programs. I use a separate virtual machine on a hosting service to provide shell and MySQL accounts to support several courses in our undergraduate ICT program.

WWW/Blog Entries

1. I Will Pass on Time Travel
2. Citizen Science
3. On Aging
4. The Trick to Social Media
5. On Conservatives
6. Lullabies and Mixtapes
7. More Hard
8. Somewhat Automated
9. The Dark, Hard Days
10. On Buddies
11. Three Quarters of a Year
12. On Fezzik
13. On Ebooks
14. A Good Read
15. Let's Dance
16. On Sudoku
17. On Carrots
18. Primate Lessons
19. On Solace
20. Surreality Polarity Reversal
21. Dear Mom
22. Not That 1984
23. On the Historical Person
24. A Pictorial List
25. On Covid19 and Keystone Species
26. s/awk/R/
27. s/sed/awk/
28. On Marriage
29. On Teaching Linux
30. Dark Nights
31. On Revising
32. On Distractions
33. A Distro Hop
34. On Conspiracy Theories
35. Earth's Holocaust
36. Come Sail Away
37. On the Bookshelf
38. The Chronicles
39. Past Colleagues
40. On Consistency
41. Restaurant Dreams
42. 35 Days
43. An Action Under Which Description
44. The Slow Down
45. I'd Rather
46. It's the Little Things
47. On Research Speed
48. On Stress Relief
49. On Sheltering
50. On Social Distancing
51. Losing a Walker Friend
52. When a Baby Cries as a Toddler
53. Converting Markdown to HTML with Table of Contents Using Pandoc
54. Switching Window Managers
55. Remembering Some Text
56. Some Observations on Usability Pertaining to a Child
57. Bad Superblock
58. A Quick Bash One-Liner and Children
59. Tidyverse Skeptic Too
60. Make Email Fun
61. Some Routines I Find Calming
62. The Product
63. The Walkers
64. On Solitude
65. On Writing and its Tools
66. Using Ed, The Standard Text Editor
67. Keeping it Minimal