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.

SharePoint Information Architect Position Available

By |August 8th, 2014|News|Comments Off on SharePoint Information Architect Position Available

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.

Records Management Needs Standards

By |August 8th, 2014|News, Standards|Comments Off on Records Management Needs Standards

Alfresco and Active Navigation have begun a new technology partnership to tackle specific content challenges associated with record organization and retention.

Making Content Findable is Key

By |August 7th, 2014|indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Making Content Findable is Key

Search tools are a researcher’s best technological tool to help them analyze, evaluate, and discover, since making content findable is key to progress.

The Evolution of Search

By |August 6th, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Evolution of Search

Search has seen some dramatic changes in recent years, and most attribute that to semantic technology. It has become the normal expectation for users that a search engine would understand inference in natural language versus the query model used for so long.

Data Harmony Version 3.9 Shines a Spotlight On Inline Tagging Web-based Service Extension

By |August 4th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Harmony Version 3.9 Shines a Spotlight On Inline Tagging Web-based Service Extension

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Data Harmony software line now includes inline tagging capability, beginning with Version 3.9, released earlier this year. Inline Tagging Feature In Data Harmony 3.9 Installations Employing inline tags, the TestMAI screen in the MAIstro™ module now displays matching content in a highlighted font when a Data Harmony user runs M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer), putting the focus on indexing concepts as they appear in the input text. XML elements are applied in the text at the exact location where a word or phrase triggered a term suggestion from the controlled vocabulary (taxonomy or thesaurus).

Senate Bill Would Abolish the NTIS

By |July 31st, 2014|News|Comments Off on Senate Bill Would Abolish the NTIS

In April, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate effectively would abolish the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). This organization was established in 1950 to collect scientific and technical reports and provide them to the public and to U.S. Government agencies.