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    Sean A. Petiya

    School of Information
    Instructor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    spetiya1@kent.edu
    Personal Website: Sean Petiya, M.S., M.L.I.S.

    Biography

    Sean Petiya is a software development engineer living in Cleveland, Ohio and has been an adjunct instructor at the iSchool since 2015. He teaches and helped develop the Digital Technologies course sequence, which includes Data, Internet, and Information Systems Fundamentals. Sean is a graduate of both the MLIS and IAKM programs at Kent State University, where he studied User Experience Design. As a student, his research focused on metadata describing comic books and graphic novels, and he published the Comic Book Ontology as part of his thesis. Sean also earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Youngstown State University and is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Specialist in HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

    *The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of Sean Petiya’s work. Further information can be found on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, or his personal website.


    Teaching

    Academic Programs
    User Experience Design
    Library & Information Science

    Data/Information/Technology User Experience in Libraries, Archives and Museums

    Courses
    LIS 60510      Digital Technologies I: Data Fundamentals
    LIS 60511       Digital Technologies II: Internet Fundamentals
    LIS 60512      Digital Technologies III: Information Systems Fundamentals
    LIS 60636      Knowledge Organization Structures, Systems, and Services
    UXD 61095    ST: Knowledge Organization Structures for UXD


    Publications

    Baker, T., Coyle, K., & Petiya, S. (2014). Multi-entity models of resource description in the Semantic Web: A comparison of FRBR, RDA, and BIBFRAME. Library Hi Tech, 32(4), 562-582. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-08-2014-0081


    Awards/Achievements

    • Undeniably Accessible, Student Accessibility Services, KSU (2018)
    • Outstanding Paper Award, Emerald Group Publishing (2015)
    • Thomas J. Froehlich Award, KSU School of Library and Information Science (2015)

    Affiliations

    • Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
    • User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)

    Education

    M.L.I.S. from Kent State University
    M.S. in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management with a Concentration in User Experience Design from Kent State University
    B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Youngstown State University
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