Besiki Stvilia
Academic Address: Florida State University College of Information 269 Louis Shores Building 142 Collegiate Loop P.O. Box 3062100 Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2100 Tel: (850) 645 73-66 Fax: (850) 644-62-53 Email: bstvilia [at] fsu [dot] edu Web: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~bstvilia

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Education

PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2006

MS, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 1997

BS, MS, Applied Mathematics, Tbilisi State University, 1989

Research Interests

Information Quality

Metadata Quality

Knowledge Management

Recommender Systems

Digital Libraries

Information Integration

Social Informatics

User error analysis

Dissertation

Stvilia, B. (2006). Measuring information quality. Thesis (Ph. D.) - University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Urbana, 2006.
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3223727

Current and Past Projects

§ Theory of Information Quality

§ IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC)

Teaching

§ LIS 6269 Seminar in Information Science (Spring 2008)

§ LIS 5263 Theory of Information Retrieval (Fall 2007)

§ LIS 5260 Information Science (Fall 2007)

§ LIS 5916 Metadata Theory and Practice (Fall 2006; Spring 2007, 2008)

§ LIS 590IQL Information Quality: Principles and Practice (Spring 2006, at UIUC)

Recent Publications

Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C. (2008). User-generated collection level metadata in an online photo-sharing system. Accepted for publication in Library & Information Science Research.

Stvilia, B. (2008). A workbench for information quality evaluation. In: R. Larsen, A. Paepcke, J. Borbinha, M. Naaman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. JCDL '08. (pp. 469-469). New York, NY: ACM.

Stvilia, B., Gasser, L. (2008). An activity theoretic model for information quality change. First Monday, 13(4).

Stvilia, B., Twidale, M., Smith, L. C., Gasser, L. (2008). Information quality work organization in Wikipedia. JASIST, 59(6), 983–1001.

Stvilia, B., Gasser, L. (2008). Value based metadata quality assessment. Library & Information Science Research, 30(1), 67-74.

Stvilia, B. (2007). A model for ontology quality evaluation. First Monday, 12(12).

Stvilia, B., Gasser, L., Twidale M., B., Smith L. C. (2007). A framework for information quality Assessment. JASIST, 58(12), 1720-1733.

Stvilia, B., Gasser, L., Twidale, M. B. (2007). Metadata quality problems in federated collections. In: L. Al-Hakim (Ed.), Information quality management: theory and applications. (pp. 154-186). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Stvilia, B., Twidale, M. B., Smith, L. C., Gasser, L. (2005). Assessing information quality of a community-based encyclopedia. In: F. Naumann, M. Gertz, S. Mednick (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality - ICIQ 2005. (pp. 442-454). Cambridge, MA: MITIQ.

Stvilia, B., Twidale, M. B., Gasser, L., Smith, L. C. (2005). Information quality discussions in Wikipedia. Technical Report ISRN UIUCLIS--2005/2+CSCW.

Shreeves, S., Knutson, E., Stvilia, B., Palmer, C., Twidale, M., Cole, T. (2005). Is Quality Metadata 'Shareable' Metadata? The Implications of Local Metadata Practices for Federated Collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. (pp. 223-237). Minneapolis, MN. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Stvilia, B., Gasser, L., Twidale, M., Shreeves, S., Cole, T. (2004). Metadata quality for Federated Collections. In: S. Chengulur-Smith, L. Raschid, J. Long, C. Seko (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality - ICIQ 2004. (pp. 111-125). Cambridge, MA: MITIQ.