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

• Research paper on What documents cannot do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi and the tacit knowledge dilemma in Information & Culture. 2021. Open Acess (Post Print version).
• Editorial paper 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 accepted in PLOS ONE titled MEDLINE search retrieval issues: A longitudinal query analysis of five vendor platforms. Pre-print in bioRxiv, titled Methodological issues with search in MEDLINE: A longitudinal query analysis (preprint).
• 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. No Sudo For You
2. The Liminal Space That Was
3. The Aha Moment
4. Mix It Up
5. Wrong Hard Drive
6. Larry McMurtry
7. Professor Suda
8. Another Anniversary
9. One Year
10. On Cooking Shows
11. Cook's Log, Fermentation Date 28
12. On Alphabetizing
13. The Restorative Work of Reading Just Books
14. Cook's Log, Fermentation Date 11
15. Font Lode
16. Be Virtuous
17. Cook's Log, Fermentation Date 9
18. Puzzled
19. Salt the Hash
20. Not Really a Kobayashi Maru
21. I Miss John and Neighbors
22. On Top
23. Fermented Cabbage
24. My Sysadmin Work
25. Back To i3
26. On File Systems
27. Loud, Clamorous, Blaring
28. In My Next Life
29. You Have Mail, too
30. You Have Mail
31. A Good Long Walk
32. Always the Tinkerer
33. Fedora Switch Complete
34. My Desktop after Eight Years
35. I Will Pass on Time Travel
36. Citizen Science
37. On Aging
38. The Trick to Social Media
39. On Conservatives
40. Lullabies and Mixtapes
41. More Hard
42. Somewhat Automated
43. The Dark, Hard Days
44. On Buddies
45. Three Quarters of a Year
46. On Fezzik
47. On Ebooks
48. A Good Read
49. Let's Dance
50. On Sudoku
51. On Carrots
52. Primate Lessons
53. On Solace
54. Surreality Polarity Reversal
55. Dear Mom
56. Not That 1984
57. On the Historical Person
58. A Pictorial List
59. On Covid19 and Keystone Species
60. s/awk/R/
61. s/sed/awk/
62. On Marriage
63. On Teaching Linux
64. Dark Nights
65. On Revising
66. On Distractions
67. A Distro Hop
68. On Conspiracy Theories
69. Earth's Holocaust
70. Come Sail Away
71. On the Bookshelf
72. The Chronicles
73. Past Colleagues
74. On Consistency
75. Restaurant Dreams
76. 35 Days
77. An Action Under Which Description
78. The Slow Down
79. I'd Rather
80. It's the Little Things
81. On Research Speed
82. On Stress Relief
83. On Sheltering
84. On Social Distancing
85. Losing a Walker Friend
86. When a Baby Cries as a Toddler
87. Converting Markdown to HTML with Table of Contents Using Pandoc
88. Switching Window Managers
89. Remembering Some Text
90. Some Observations on Usability Pertaining to a Child
91. Bad Superblock
92. A Quick Bash One-Liner and Children
93. Tidyverse Skeptic Too
94. Make Email Fun
95. Some Routines I Find Calming
96. The Product
97. The Walkers
98. On Solitude
99. On Writing and its Tools
100. Using Ed, The Standard Text Editor
101. Keeping it Minimal