Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies

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Understanding taxonomies and how they are used can be challenging, depending on the context and audience. The Accidental Taxonomist brought this interesting topic to […]

Regulating Data

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Data integrity is a broad discipline that informs how data is collected, stored, accessed, and used. The idea of integrity is a central element […]

Changing Culture with Taxonomies

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When it comes to employees, organizations need to remember the various levels of learning of individuals in the workforce and offer reskilling to their […]

Measuring the Impact

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Evaluating scientific quality is a notoriously difficult problem which has no standard solution. Ideally, published scientific results should be scrutinized by true experts in […]

Making Content Accessible

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Digital accessibility refers to the usability of a website, app, or other digital experience for all possible users, regardless of their economic status, ability, or […]

Integrity Through Governance

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All organizations need to plan how they use data, so that it is handled consistently throughout for good business outcomes. Organizations that accomplish this […]

Collaboration and Access

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Transparency, openness, verification, and reproducibility are important features of research and innovation. Open research helps to support and uphold these features across the whole […]

Register Today for SSP2023 and Save

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Catch up on industry trends and network with scholarly communications colleagues at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (#SSP2023) – scheduled for May 31-June 2, […]

Using AI and Analytics

By |April 18th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Using AI and Analytics

New artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are improving many processes and functions. Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of AI used by search engines […]