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.

Semantic Change

By |January 16th, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Change

Search has never been more personal, or engaging or interactive. Most of all, it has never been more changing. As semantic technology continues to evolve, search is correspondingly becoming more comprehensive and effective. This interesting topic was brought to us by Search Engine Land in their article, “5 Ways To Unlock The Benefits Of Semantic Search.”

Machine Assisted Indexing Trumps

By |January 16th, 2014|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Machine Assisted Indexing Trumps

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has created a health IT hazard reporting system to make it easier to see trends. The Health IT Hazard Manager was funded by Abt Associates with the ECRI Institute and Geisinger Health System’s Patient Safety Institute. The project incorporates Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) common formats and a tested, standardized taxonomy to index the content of a central repository of data.

Class is Everything

By |January 16th, 2014|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Class is Everything

EDItEUR has published a new subject classification system intended for use throughout the global book and e-book trade.

Going Digital Worthy, But Challenging

By |January 14th, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Going Digital Worthy, But Challenging

Despite their instructions, almost half (46 percent) of federal agency records and information management professionals do not believe the presidential directive for digital records are realistic and obtainable. This came just days before the end of 2013.

Access Innovations, Inc. Selects Heather Kotula as DHUG Meeting and Marketing Coordinator

By |January 13th, 2014|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. Selects Heather Kotula as DHUG Meeting and Marketing Coordinator

Heather Kotula, a long-time employee of Access Innovations, Inc., has recently been promoted to the position of DHUG (Data Harmony Users Group) Meeting and Marketing Coordinator. Heather is one of many faces of fresh, young talent at Access Innovations, and her promotion can only mean good things for the company.

Content Enrichment Enriches

By |January 10th, 2014|News, Term lists|Comments Off on Content Enrichment Enriches

There has been an online debate recently about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment. Many think there are no differences, just terminology preferences, while others believe there are distinct differences in the definitions and their uses. We found this interesting information on CMSWire in their article, “Smart Content Reviewed: Text Analytics & Semantic Content Enrichment.”