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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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