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.

A Marriage of the Past and the Future

By |July 22nd, 2014|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on A Marriage of the Past and the Future

Katy Klettlinger became Licking County’s first records center coordinator in November 2008 to store and preserve public records. The position was one of solitude at first but now oversees three other full-time employees: one reference archivist and two imaging technicians. They preserve public records on paper, in electronic form and on microfilm.

Semantic Technology Conference Celebrates 10 Years

By |July 22nd, 2014|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Conference Celebrates 10 Years

DATAVERSITY™ Education, LLC, and SemanticWeb.com have released the agenda and opening of registration for the 10th annual Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz).

Trees, Fractals, and Taxonomies

By |July 21st, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Trees, Fractals, and Taxonomies

If you look at a branch of a typical deciduous tree, you can see that it looks like a smaller tree. Likewise, that branch branches off into smaller branches that look like even smaller trees. This characteristic of trees is an example of what mathematicians, biologists, and systems scientists call self-similarity. Self-similar systems repeat their basic geometry at smaller and smaller scales, creating multiple miniatures of themselves at different scales. In general, natural and mathematical systems in which self-similarity results in complex and detailed patterns are referred to as fractal systems.

Streamlining the Search

By |July 21st, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Streamlining the Search

Modern records management is in a process of evolution. Many organizations, including private, public and government, have begun to digitize, because maintaining paper and digital records together is no longer feasible. Manually indexing is just too difficult and time consuming, so a tool is needed to accomplish this goal. However, it is more than just indexing. Streamlining the discovery portion is as important, if not more important.

Searching and Finding

By |July 18th, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Searching and Finding

Do the current methods of searching the Internet actually have an expiration date? The scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) believe that just may be the case. Their goal is to revolutionize the discovery, organization, and presentation of results.

Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

By |July 17th, 2014|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards and Taxonomies – Match Made in Heaven

A recent study revealed an open standard for fixed-income reference data would better coordinate taxonomies, even with the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council's Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO).

Webinar Addresses Office 365

By |July 15th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses Office 365

What You Should Know." As the developer of Smart Content Framework, this informative webinar will be based on the recent Concept Searching SharePoint and Office 365 speaking engagements. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 22nd, at 11:30am-12:30pm EDT. Registration is now open.

The Semantics of Search

By |July 15th, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Semantics of Search

Semantic search continues to develop and be even more integral to information management, but how does it affect your efforts to identify and employ keywords? This is assuming that keywords even matter anymore. How does it help make your content findable?