Besiki Stvilia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
bstvilia@fsu.edu


1. Focus: Information Quality Assurance

• Understanding of the concept of Information Quality - what does it mean and how it is understood in organizations and communities
• Developing sound and systematic ways of measuring IQ
• Synthesizing knowledge and the ways IQ measurements can be aggregated at different levels, different dimensions and from different contents
• Understanding of IQ dynamics - how IQ change over time, what causes the change and how it can be modeled,
• Developing/identifying effective intervention strategies for different classes/types of IQ problems.

2. Focus: Social Informatics/CSCW

• Studying information work organization
  • Collaborative work practices
    • Patterns of information technology use
    • Collaboration and coordination mechanisms
  • User errors

3. Focus: Metadata encoding theory and practice

• Studying the problems of metadata
  • Quality
  • Interoperability
  • Aggregation