Besiki Stvilia
Academic Address: Florida State University College of Communication and Information School of Library and Information Studies 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 and Data Quality
• Social Informatics
• Digital Data Curation
• Metadata and Ontologies
• Image Indexing
• Digital Libraries

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

• A workbench for semi-automatic information quality evaluation
• Theory of Information Quality
• Information Quality Work Organization in Open Social Systems
• Reuse and Integration of Socially Generated Metadata
• Virtual Scientific Teams: Life-Cycle Formation and Long-Term Scientific Collaboration
• IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC)

Regular Courses Taught

• LIS 6759 Seminar in Intellectual Access
• LIS 6269 Seminar in Information Science
• LIS 5263 Theory of Information Retrieval
• LIS 5260 Information Science
• LIS 5787 Metadata Theory and Practice

Selected Publications

Hinnant, C., Stvilia, B., Wu, S., Worrall, A., Burnett, G., Burnett, K., Kazmer, M., & Marty, P. (in press, 2012). Author team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a national science lab. Library & Information Science Research.

Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., & Wu, S. (2012). Establishing the value of socially created metadata to image indexing. Library & Information Science Research, 34(2), 99-109.

Huang, H., Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., & Bass, H. (2012). Prioritization of data quality dimensions and skills requirements in genome annotation curation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(1), 195–207.

Yi, Y. J., Stvilia, B., & Mon, L. (2012). An understanding of cultural influence on seeking quality health information: A qualitative study. Library & Information Science, 34(1), 45-51.

Stvilia, B., Hinnant, C., Schindler, K., Worrall, A., Burnett, G., Burnett, K., Kazmer, M., & Marty, P. (2011). Composition of scientific teams and publication productivity at a national science lab. JASIST, 62(2), 270-283.

Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C. (2010). Member activities and quality of tags in a collection of historical photographs in Flickr. JASIST, 61(12), 2477–2489.

Stvilia, B., Al-Faraj, A., & Yi, Y. (2009). Issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation—The case of Arabic, English, and Korean Wikipedias. Library & Information Science Research, 31(4), 232-239.

Stvilia, B., Mon, L., Yi, Y. (2009). A model for online consumer health information quality. JASIST, 60(9), 1781-1791.

Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C. (2009). User-generated collection level metadata in an online photo-sharing system. Library & Information Science Research. 31(1), 54-65.

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.