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.

Ontologies Bring Consistency to the Project

By |May 11th, 2015|News, ontology, Standards|Comments Off on Ontologies Bring Consistency to the Project

The Pistoia Alliance is a global, not-for-profit alliance of life science organizations that work together to lower barriers to innovation in research and development (R&D). They recently announced the start of a new Ontologies Mapping project.

Semantic Advancements

By |May 8th, 2015|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Advancements

Expert System is known for their semantic technology advancements. Now, with a new partnership with MongoDB to integrate its Cogito semantic technology with MongoDB powered big data environments, users can quickly and accurately access unstructured data.

Flexibility for Users in Classification

By |May 6th, 2015|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Flexibility for Users in Classification

TITUS has released Classification Suite 4. The new version of its data identification and information protection suite uses content and context to automatically classify and protect information as users handle it, and allows manual and guided classification for maximum flexibility and user engagement.

Google Brings Changes

By |May 5th, 2015|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Google Brings Changes

A couple weeks ago, Google changed its algorithm to give preference to 'mobile-friendly' sites when users perform a search on a mobile device. The change was coined as 'Mobilegeddon' because of the potential to bury websites that haven't been optimized to display correctly on various sizes of mobile devices, while also boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly sites.

Crowdsourcing Funds to Preserve Language

By |May 5th, 2015|News, reference|Comments Off on Crowdsourcing Funds to Preserve Language

The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) has cataloged vernacular terms and idioms from around the country since it was founded in the early 1960s, Sadly, their funding is coming up empty. Previously funded by various grants, including endowments from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project will run out of money this summer.