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.

Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

By |July 7th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Now Accepting Presentation Abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting

Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the Call for Presentations for the 2015 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting, held every February at Access Innovations company headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. DHUG 2015 is the eleventh annual meeting and will focus on leveraging of taxonomies and tagged data, techniques for integrating tagged data flows into production cycles, and inventive ways to improve the user experience.

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Making Your Content Findable

By |July 7th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search, Standards|Comments Off on Making Your Content Findable

In the world of records management, accuracy is the litmus test of all success. What is the point of indexing and storing if you can never locate the data again in the future?

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The Status of Records Management

By |July 4th, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on The Status of Records Management

Trends like cloud, social, and mobile have changed the requirements of enterprise content management (ECM) software, and the user’s expectations as well. Storage isn’t the only issue; it is about connecting and relating to the information. Because of this, records management, in its traditional form, is failing us.

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Abundant Data

By |July 4th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Abundant Data

Abundance - the word of the year, maybe the decade. That is no different in the world of data. We have computers capable of processing the vast and complex data, and thanks to the clouds, our storage capabilities appear to be endless. But is this a false sense of security?

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Data About Data

By |July 2nd, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data About Data

Metadata has become a common term, thanks to the National Security Agency (NSA) scandals. But in the end, metadata is described as “basic information about data.” This means it often accompanies other data in an interpretative role.

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How much do you value your data?

By |July 2nd, 2014|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on How much do you value your data?

In the world of finance, the term asset has a particular meaning. Though you can’t always put a dollar figure on data, few would argue that an organization’s data is not an asset. Just try to imagine not having the data or access to it, and how important it is just got real.

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Smoothing the Way

By |July 1st, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smoothing the Way

Cambridge Semantics has released Anzo Smart Data Integration (ASDI) software to help enterprises rapidly understand and integrate information assets. This new software is designed to reduce integration timeframes and costs by a factor of 10.

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Ever-Expanding Data

By |July 1st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Ever-Expanding Data

In an effort to reduce storage costs, the AIS Group is piloting a call recording application to ensure compliance with insurance regulations.

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Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

By |June 30th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Inline Tagging – What’s to Know?

Data Harmony released their Inline Tagging Web service extension recently – let’s talk about inline tagging software and information environments well-suited to benefit.

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The Time of Data

By |June 27th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on The Time of Data

Informatica has announced its Intelligent Data Platform that is designed to provide ”the right data at the right time.”

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