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.

The Old Meets New

By |June 11th, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on The Old Meets New

Online chat rooms and bulletin boards started in the 1980s and 1990s. As the internet evolved, social media sites became a prominent figure in […]

The New Normal

By |June 10th, 2015|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The New Normal

The search engines of today are so powerful and so common that we assume that searches will provide our desired results in a matter […]

Next stop – Boston!

By |June 9th, 2015|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Next stop – Boston!

Are you headed to the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference in Boston this week? We will see you there. Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, […]

Proper Semantics

By |June 9th, 2015|News, semantic|Comments Off on Proper Semantics

Someone (maybe your soul mate, best friend, or sister) who knows you well enough to finish your sentences for you has a semantic understanding […]

Down the Rabbit Hole

By |June 8th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Down the Rabbit Hole

As many readers know, the main U.S. standard for taxonomies, thesauri, and other controlled vocabularies is ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and […]

True Taxonomies

By |June 8th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on True Taxonomies

Because there is no reliable way to choose strategies that are appropriate for implementing guidelines facing different barriers, a scoping systematic review was performed on MEDLINE […]

Those Voices in Your Head

By |June 4th, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Those Voices in Your Head

This interesting taxonomy caught my eye partly because it was different and partly because I was relieved other people had voices in their head […]