Melody Smith

Knowledge Management Opportunities in Germany

By Melody Smith | March 4, 2015

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.

Google It

By Melody Smith | March 4, 2015

Google has started on an adventure that could change health care and medicine as well as add a whole new avenue of work. Google’s Head of Life Sciences, Andrew Conrad, recently announced that the company is building a nanoparticle platform that could one day be used to continuously measure a person’s health through ingestible nanoparticles.

Meet-Up in the UK

By Melody Smith | March 3, 2015

Facet Publishing is bringing a very interesting learning and networking opportunity to knowledge professionals in the United Kingdom. “Findability and information management in the corporate workplace” This particular meetup will celebrate the launch of Facet Publishing’s new “A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals”. This is an overview of the issues and opportunities for information professionals in rapidly-changing environments, and contains contributions from a wide range of sectors and specialisms.

Not Quite HAL

By Melody Smith | March 3, 2015

It sounds like fictional television or the latest science fiction thriller. However, with software-defined networking (SDN), networks are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud-based virtualization and through many steps that are so much more complicated than I am making them sound, they are on the cusp of enabling networks to remain self-aware, self-defending, and self-healing – all the time.

Measures of Success

By Melody Smith | March 3, 2015

Information technology continues to change at a rate unfathomable for most to keep up with, let alone manage. Roles change on a daily basis in an effort to just keep up.

Data Analysis in a Standards-Challenged World

By Melody Smith | March 2, 2015

We deal pretty heavily around here in words, what they mean, and how they’re used. It should go without saying, but it’s a fundamental part of what we do and is what makes us so concerned with standards, in both taxonomies and the written word. The two go hand in hand; it’s a whole lot…

Learning Opportunity in Publishing

By Melody Smith | March 2, 2015

With a title like, “Life in the Fast Lane: Driving Change or Changing Drivers?”, who wouldn’t be intrigued? This Washington D.C. seminar is brought to us as part of the 2015 Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing™.

The White Paper is Here

By Melody Smith | March 2, 2015

Back when Steve Martin rejoiced in his name being in print and predicting things will start happening to him now, the reference to white pages was much different. KM World recently released a white paper on big data and though it contains helpful information to tackling the challenge that comes with the data explosion, they didn’t need to run through the streets declaring its arrival.

Learning Opportunity in Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | February 27, 2015

We always like to pass on training and learning opportunities as they come across our desk(top). The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) offers theoretical courses for students, technicians, and early career researchers involved in the field of taxonomy. The program is open to participants from both inside and outside of Europe. The primary objective of…