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.

Consistency Equals Findability

By |January 6th, 2014|News, Term lists|Comments Off on Consistency Equals Findability

Adaptive has released their web-based platform, Adaptive Business Glossary Manager (BGM), which provides a framework to help organizations define and communicate consistent business vocabulary and align glossary terms. This platform is available in the Cloud or behind the firewall. It can substantially improve data governance and management while reducing exposure to compliance risk.

Choose Your Partners Carefully

By |January 3rd, 2014|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Choose Your Partners Carefully

Law firms are always looking for a seamless and efficient process and/or product to manage their digital and physical records. The RM Suite has been designed with law firm information governance in mind. As documents and emails are saved to eDOCS DM, they are automatically categorized and electronically filed in RM using the appropriate Client/Matter File Plan and Retention Schedule. This interesting information was found on Heraldonline.com in their article, “Matrix Logic Announces Records Management Legal Solution Suite for OpenText eDOCS RM at ILTA 2013 Conference.”

Improving the Find

By |January 3rd, 2014|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Improving the Find

A database is only as good as the data entered and the search tool being used to explore it. With that in mind, the Energy Department’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has taken steps to improve their databases by releasing a reference tool that uses semantic search techniques. This interesting news was found on GCN.com’s blog, PULSE, in a post titled, “DOE rolls out semantic search for science research.”