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.

Using Taxonomy to Save a Butterfly

By |April 6th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Using Taxonomy to Save a Butterfly

The monarch butterfly is a beautiful sight, whether it’s fluttering through a garden or resting on a flower. Understandably admired, it’s the state insect of Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, and Texas. It’s also the state butterfly of Vermont and West Virginia.

Simplifying Search

By |April 2nd, 2015|News, search|Comments Off on Simplifying Search

The recent launch of TopQuadrant’s Version 4.6 of TopBraid Suite is designed to simplify the development and management of standards-based, model-driven solutions for enterprise taxonomy, ontology and metadata management.

Learning Opportunities in Publishing

By |March 31st, 2015|News|Comments Off on Learning Opportunities in Publishing

There are two learning opportunities to share with you today. The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker, Peter Kaufman, Associate Director of CCNMTL at Columbia University at its meeting on Friday, April 10th from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Association of American Publishers (AAP) New York office.

Transparency Reduces Conflict

By |March 31st, 2015|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Transparency Reduces Conflict

The Wellcome Trust and Digital Science have introduced a 'contributor role taxonomy' in an effort to provide classification of the roles performed by individuals in the work leading to published academic research. The purpose of the CRediT Taxonomy is to provide transparency in contributions to scholarly published work.

Heather Kotula Named Director of Communications at Access Innovations, Inc.

By |March 30th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Heather Kotula Named Director of Communications at Access Innovations, Inc.

Access Innovations, Inc. is happy to announce an important change to its corporate structure, a change designed to best represent the talents of their staff.