Sean Lahman has been a pioneer in the field of digital publishing. He created a digital publishing program at Total Sports Publishing, where his accomplishments included the first online serialization of a novel simultaneous with its release in print. He has worked with companies to develop content management systems, and to use existing content to develop eBooks, CD-ROMs, and print-on-demand programs.
Lahman has broken new ground in the field of sports statistics, creating historical databases for use in both print and digital projects. His work spans the spectrum of sport -- baseball, pro and college football, pro and college basketball, auto racing, tennis, boxing, golf, soccer, cricket, chess, and the Olympic games. His Baseball Archive web site was one of the early sources for baseball information on the Internet, and he headed the first significant effort to make a database of baseball statistics freely available to the general public. Lahman also contributed to pioneering efforts at web sites like Baseball-Reference.com, Pro-Football-Reference.com, and BasketballReference.com.
He has written for or edited a number of books, including the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, Total Baseball and Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia. His writing experience ranges from regular work in big city newspapers to major magazines to books and encyclopedias. He is a frequent guest on sports radio programs across North America. He provided content that is used in interactive kiosks at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He helped to develop supplementary material for the DVD version of the nine-part Ken Burns' documentary "Baseball."
Game companies have relied on Lahman for statistical content and algorithm design. For corporate clients, Lahman has taught courses and conducted seminars on topics including software testing, software test automation tools, and XML and related standards. His book "Building Data Driven Websites" was frequently used as a textbook for PHP programming courses. He is an occasional lecturer and panelist on the subjects of data-mining, digital copyright protection and the open source movement.