C. Sean Burns

News

February 23, 2021

On April 29, I will give a talk on The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma in Open Science to SIG-KM at ASIST. The talk is based on a forthcoming paper (March 2021) in the journal Information and Culture titled What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi and the Tacit Knowledge Dilemma. My deep thanks to SIG-KM for the invitation to give this talk.

January 22, 2021

I officially start my sabbatical this semester. I'm working on several research projects and also revising two courses.

September 12, 2020

I gave a talk for one of our monthly College research presentations on Functional Search Problems among MEDLINE Databases. 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.

Research

Recent Publications

• A first for me: an 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

On sabbatical.

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. 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.

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.

Teaching Repos

• Lectures and demo scripts for course on Linux Systems Administration.
• Lectures and other material for course on Electronic Resource Management.
• Lectures and other materials for course on Personal Knowledge Management.
• Material for course on Semantic Web Development.

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.

The Text, Please. Just the Text.

Links to Short Essays

1. On Alphabetizing
2. The Restorative Work of Reading Just Books
3. Cook's Log, Fermentation Date 11
4. Font Lode
5. Be Virtuous
6. Cook's Log, Fermentation Date 9
7. Puzzled
8. Salt the Hash
9. Not Really a Kobayashi Maru
10. I Miss John and Neighbors
11. On Top
12. Fermented Cabbage
13. My Sysadmin Work
14. Back To i3
15. On File Systems
16. Loud, Clamorous, Blaring
17. In My Next Life
18. You Have Mail, too
19. You Have Mail
20. A Good Long Walk
21. Always the Tinkerer
22. Fedora Switch Complete
23. My Desktop after Eight Years
24. I Will Pass on Time Travel
25. Citizen Science
26. On Aging
27. The Trick to Social Media
28. On Conservatives
29. Lullabies and Mixtapes
30. More Hard
31. Somewhat Automated
32. The Dark, Hard Days
33. On Buddies
34. Three Quarters of a Year
35. On Fezzik
36. On Ebooks
37. A Good Read
38. Let's Dance
39. On Sudoku
40. On Carrots
41. Primate Lessons
42. On Solace
43. Surreality Polarity Reversal
44. Dear Mom
45. Not That 1984
46. On the Historical Person
47. A Pictorial List
48. On Covid19 and Keystone Species
49. s/awk/R/
50. s/sed/awk/
51. On Marriage
52. On Teaching Linux
53. Dark Nights
54. On Revising
55. On Distractions
56. A Distro Hop
57. On Conspiracy Theories
58. Earth's Holocaust
59. Come Sail Away
60. On the Bookshelf
61. The Chronicles
62. Past Colleagues
63. On Consistency
64. Restaurant Dreams
65. 35 Days
66. An Action Under Which Description
67. The Slow Down
68. I'd Rather
69. It's the Little Things
70. On Research Speed
71. On Stress Relief
72. On Sheltering
73. On Social Distancing
74. Losing a Walker Friend
75. When a Baby Cries as a Toddler
76. Converting Markdown to HTML with Table of Contents Using Pandoc
77. Switching Window Managers
78. Remembering Some Text
79. Some Observations on Usability Pertaining to a Child
80. Bad Superblock
81. A Quick Bash One-Liner and Children
82. Tidyverse Skeptic Too
83. Make Email Fun
84. Some Routines I Find Calming
85. The Product
86. The Walkers
87. On Solitude
88. On Writing and its Tools
89. Using Ed, The Standard Text Editor
90. Keeping it Minimal