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.

Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball

By |March 24th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball

Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, editor of “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season, and clichés and hyperbole reign. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek, Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.

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Semantic Search Enhances Results

By |March 24th, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Enhances Results

Vodacom SA has deployed Ontology Systems to enhance their service assurance operations. By providing Vodacom with a comprehensive service assurance solution for change management and fault management operations, they can accurately assess the impact of change requests and reduce the cross-network impact of ad hoc transmission infrastructure fault management.

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Information Architecture Position Available in Southeast Asia

By |March 21st, 2014|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Information Architecture Position Available in Southeast Asia

As usual, we are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata and semantic technology.

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Intent in Search

By |March 21st, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Intent in Search

By analogy with the evolution of aviation, search technology and semantic technology have reached the equivalent of the stealth bombers. Boolean expressions made searches more sophisticated through the use of query modifiers. It became possible to find better results by narrowing or widening the parameters. Keyword searches match results to phrases that are specified by users, and advanced algorithms made this the dominant approach for Web search engines by assigning rankings to pages with the best user experience. But what about context?

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Managing the Data

By |March 21st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing the Data

Managing massive amounts of information is not a foreign challenge for any area of business. We have often talked about it from the information technology perspective, but when you narrow it down to specific fields of interests, like insurance providers, the history of dealing with data in that field may prove to be the bigger challenge.

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Applying Strategy

By |March 20th, 2014|News, storage|Comments Off on Applying Strategy

Archive Management Systems (AMS) is incorporating ibml’s SoftTrac Capture Suite software and ImageTrac scanner in their recent production scanning and document capture solution.

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Paving the Way for Better Banking

By |March 19th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Paving the Way for Better Banking

One scientist sees the technology of semantics as a solution to better understand and manage big-bank risk profiles. Using the compilation of data by the semantic models, banking professionals will be able to better prepare for regulatory issues and internal risk calculations.

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Looking Forward

By |March 18th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on Looking Forward

The semantic web has been referred to as the next phase of the Internet. What this means is not agreed upon at this point, but it is safe to say that it will impact all humans as well as how they communicate with one another. Data has changed as well, and that is partly due to the semantic web.

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Software Engineer Sought

By |March 18th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Software Engineer Sought

We are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata and semantic technology. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how your field of choice is evolving.

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Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

By |March 17th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata|Comments Off on Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

Data Harmony, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., has announced that version 3.9 of its suite of software tools will be released on March 31, 2014. Current customers will be the first to receive the new version. “Our recent enhancements provide greater search efficiency while browsing your thesaurus through callouts and hyperlinks to related and narrower terms,” said Allex Lyons, one of the Data Harmony programming team. “Dropdown menus in the search window display subject terms with a type head (autocomplete) function that assists users of any skill or experience level.”

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