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