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.

Webinar for Information Services

By |January 27th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Webinar for Information Services

There is always time to learn. Especially when it is as convenient as a webinar. A special National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) learning opportunity is scheduled for Friday, February 13, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). Bryan Alexander, Consultant and Editor of Future Trends in Technology and Education, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator for Strategic Planning/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be discussing trends and challenges facing information professionals these days.

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Opening the Doors

By |January 27th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Opening the Doors

Facebook has announced that it will open source deep learning modules for the Torch artificial intelligence project. This could speed up technology and make it more accessible to developers and ultimately companies.

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Bob Kasenchak Named Head of Product Development at Access Innovations, Inc.

By |January 26th, 2015|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Bob Kasenchak Named Head of Product Development at Access Innovations, Inc.

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce an exciting change to its corporate structure, a change designed to increase revenue and maximize the considerable talent of its staff.

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Super Fans

By |January 26th, 2015|News, Term lists|Comments Off on Super Fans

For full disclosure, I am not a sports person. That may not be too surprising as I am of the gender least likely to be interested. Before my female friends and colleagues who enjoy the games get offended, know that I am not saying this with any amount of pride nor disdain for those who do not fall in the statistical profile. In fact, female viewership of the National Football League (NFL) alone is up 26%. Some are even saying that the increase in female fans might be significant to saving their future.

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Defining Ontologies

By |January 23rd, 2015|News, ontology|Comments Off on Defining Ontologies

Developing a taxonomy or classification system organized into conceptually similar categories can help users gain a better understanding of the taxonomy subject area. Likewise, an ontology can provide insights into relationships that go beyond grouping of similar concepts. In the case of the recent Time magazine thesaurus showing the relationships of various famous people for 2014, it really is more of an ontology identifying the relationships and correlations. To create a useful ontology, there needs to be a way to evaluate the quality of knowledge model.

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19th EDW Conference

By |January 22nd, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on 19th EDW Conference

Enterprise Data World EDW is taking place March 29-April 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Are you ready?

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A Working Relationship

By |January 22nd, 2015|News|Comments Off on A Working Relationship

How do you really feel about SharePoint? With required manual tagging, often users hate to upload a document only to find that there are a half dozen fields to fill in before they can finish the upload process.

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Handling the Email Chaos

By |January 21st, 2015|News, storage, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Handling the Email Chaos

The voices, or maybe the rants, differ on the advantages of email for records management. We understand the storage challenges that come with the mass amounts of data created by email and in discovery alone email poses challenges to even the strongest records management policies.

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You want tools with that?

By |January 21st, 2015|News|Comments Off on You want tools with that?

There have been many changes with the advent of digital formats. For the publishing world, the most significant is possibly the changed perception of time. You know, the time gap between writing and actual publishing, as well as the time between publishing your works to readers and seeing how they receive them. Analytics are now practically real-time. But has technology caught up with that? Are there proper analytical software tools available to gather and interpret this very valuable information?

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Digital Assets Becoming More Important

By |January 20th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Digital Assets Becoming More Important

It’s that time of year when we look back and forward simultaneously. Looking back at what we have accomplished while looking forward with anticipation as to what opportunities and yes, challenges, the new year will bring to each of us and the industries we work in.

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