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.

Limitations of Fuzzy Matching of Lexical Variants

By |April 14th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, semantic|Comments Off on Limitations of Fuzzy Matching of Lexical Variants

Some vendors of text analytics software claim that their software can identify the occurrences of text reflecting specific taxonomy terms (with the strong, and false, implication that it identifies all such occurrences) using “fuzzy matching” or “fuzzy term matching.” Some explanations of the technology, from Techopedia and Wikipedia, show that it is a fairly crude mathematical approach, similar to the co-occurrence statistical approaches that such software also tends to use, and no match for rule-based indexing approaches that derive their effectiveness from human intelligence.

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Approach with Consistency

By |April 14th, 2014|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Approach with Consistency

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recently announced the publication of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2014). The original recommended practice which was issued in 2010, provided all parties in the information supply chain with straightforward guidance about metadata formatting­.

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Three Librarians Walk Into a Casino

By |April 11th, 2014|News, reference|Comments Off on Three Librarians Walk Into a Casino

If you are still on the fence about whether to attend the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this summer, this bit of news might help you make your decision. There will be a special performance by the Oxford Commas, a band composed of librarians and university press editors who are dedicated to raising the grammatical standard in popular music. The set list will include such favorites as: Whom Do You Love?, You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, and Two Out of Three Is Not Bad.

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Embracing Knowledge Management

By |April 10th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Embracing Knowledge Management

KM Institute (KMI) just offered its first Certified Knowledge Specialist (CKS) 4-day class this week in Reston, VA. Why are we talking about something that has already happened? The CKS is a new Certification by KMI designed to take a deeper focus a specific knowledge management-related topic. In this case, the focus was on Taxonomy and Search Solutions.

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Semantic Technology Professional Sought

By |April 8th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Professional Sought

The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), an international organization launched in 2005, following a proposal from the Global Science Forum of the OECD to establish international coordination and collaborative informatics infrastructure for neuroscience. INCF, in collaboration with the Human Brain Project, is now seeking to immediately hire a Semantic Technology Specialist.

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A Taxonomy of Me

By |April 8th, 2014|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on A Taxonomy of Me

I couldn't help myself. A taxonomy of selfies? How could I look away? Please forgive my self-indulgence (pun totally intended).

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The Semantics of Whisk(e)y

By |April 7th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Semantics of Whisk(e)y

As noted last week in our article, "A Spirit of Another Name", Saveur has created a glossary of Whisk(e)ys. However, as we all know, a glossary does not a taxonomy make –it can, however, be a good starting point. One of the problems, of course, is that national styles – and even spellings—are mutable. In general, “whiskey” comes from Ireland and the United States, while “whisky” (no ‘e’) comes from Canada and Scotland. However, well-known bourbon Maker’s Mark long ago decided to buck the semantic trend and drop the “e” despite being an all-American brand.

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The Powers of Semantic Technology

By |April 4th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on The Powers of Semantic Technology

Semantic data standards exist in a variety of businesses and markets. In the oil and gas industry, they exist to help users integrate different types of data together or answer some of the more difficult questions. They break down the walls of application names, such as Excel or Oracle, and allow the data to be published, accessed, and linked as simple as browsing a website.

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Searching the Clouds

By |April 3rd, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Searching the Clouds

Visionet Systems, Inc. has announced the public launch of VisiOCR, a cloud-based automated mortgage document indexing and data extraction service for lenders, servicers, settlement companies, and investors.

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It is Just a Taxonomy

By |April 2nd, 2014|Autoindexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on It is Just a Taxonomy

We have shared here many times the angst of those who are worried about the ICD-10 coding classification transition that goes into effect on October 1, 2014. The new classification system has five times the number of codes, hence the angst.

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