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

 

 

Full CV in pdf format

 

 

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/Data Quality
  • Metadata and Ontologies
  • Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, and Digital Data Curation
  • Social Informatics
  • HCI

 

 

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 Work Organization in Wikipedia
  • Reuse and Integration of Socially Constructed Metadata
  • Collaboration Patterns and Dynamics of Virtual Scientific Teams
  • IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC)

 

 

Teaching

 

  • LIS 6759 Seminar in Intellectual Access (Fall 2009)
  • LIS 6269 Seminar in Information Science (Spring 2008)
  • LIS 5263 Theory of Information Retrieval (Fall 2007-2009)
  • LIS 5260 Information Science (Fall 2007; Spring 2009)
  • LIS 5916 Metadata Theory and Practice (Fall 2006, 2008; Spring 2007-2009)
  • LIS 590IQL Information Quality: Principles and Practice (Spring 2006, at UIUC)

 

 

Selected Publications

 

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.