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. If the video becomes available, I'll link to it here. Meanwhile, the 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. On Marriage
2. On Teaching Linux
3. Dark Nights
4. On Revising
5. On Distractions
6. A Distro Hop
7. On Conspiracy Theories
8. Earth's Holocaust
9. Come Sail Away
10. On the Bookshelf
11. The Chronicles
12. Past Colleagues
13. On Consistency
14. Restaurant Dreams
15. 35 Days
16. An Action Under Which Description
17. The Slow Down
18. I'd Rather
19. It's the Little Things
20. On Screen Size
21. On Research Speed
22. On Stress Relief
23. On Sheltering
24. On Social Distancing
25. Losing a Walker Friend
26. When a Baby Cries as a Toddler
27. Converting Markdown to HTML with Table of Contents Using Pandoc
28. Switching Window Managers
29. Remembering Some Text
30. Some Observations on Usability Pertaining to a Child
31. Bad Superblock
32. A Quick Bash One-Liner and Children
33. Tidyverse Skeptic Too
34. Make Email Fun
35. Some Routines I Find Calming
36. The Product
37. The Walkers
38. On Solitude
39. On Writing and its Tools
40. Using Ed, The Standard Text Editor
41. Keeping it Minimal