Besiki Stvilia is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University. He received his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, Georgia. His major research interests are Information and Data Quality Assurance, Digital Data Curation, Research Information Management, and Social Informatics. In particular, he studies collaborative work organization and data practices in various communities and develops models for information and data management, dynamics, and intervention.
Research Interests
Data Quality, Data Curation, Computational Social Sciences, Knowledge Organization, Knowledge Graphs, Research Information Management, Social Informatics
Teaching Interests
Metadata, Information Behavior, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Data Curation, Knowledge Graphs