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.

Google’s Biggest Challenge

By |September 3rd, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Google’s Biggest Challenge

Vision is key to succeeding but difficult to obtain if you have been in the lead from the beginning. There is power in seeing the backs of your competitors. It drives you to compete and win. But always seeing the finish line with a clear view can be deceptive.

Recognition for Semantic Contribution

By |September 3rd, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Recognition for Semantic Contribution

Concept Searching has been awarded KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2013 status for its conceptClassifier for SharePoint. More than 700 offerings from some 300 vendors were assessed by the judging panel.

Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

By |September 2nd, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Some Thoughts on Vocabulary Control

A large part of what we work on in taxonomy development is vocabulary control. Our classification of knowledge involves designing controlled vocabularies and getting them into a form that we can use many, many times. We also have to do some linguistic analysis of the data to make sure that our terms are working correctly.

Semantic Technology Continues to Expand

By |September 2nd, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Continues to Expand

Taiwan’s first natural semantic understanding technology enabling seamless dialogue between humans and speech recognition systems was recently released by the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

Going Digital With A Purpose

By |August 30th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Going Digital With A Purpose

A large collection of court records from the late 1800s are being converted into digital files by New Perspectives Inc. (NPI). Creating digital files that can be indexed, searched and accessed is an honorable task. The benefit here is that the employees hired by NPI are individuals with physical impairments that are learning job skills that will help them make a future for themselves.

New Release Increases Findability

By |August 30th, 2013|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Release Increases Findability

Instem has released version 8.4 of its Sequence Retrieval System (SRS). This data integration platform is scalable and used in over 300 sites, both commercial and academic. Version 8.4 includes support for indexing data using Apache Lucene technology. Geeks World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Instem Releases Next Version of SRS Data Integration Platform.”

Special Issue To Cover Semantic Search

By |August 29th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Special Issue To Cover Semantic Search

The possibilities and limitations of semantic search are often discussed as more and more enterprises and applications utilize the technology. Research on the subject as grown almost as fast as the technology itself. Semantic search research is often based on large and rich data sets and a combination of techniques.

More Uses for Semantic Technology

By |August 28th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on More Uses for Semantic Technology

Mimesi has adopted Expert System's semantic technology to strengthen its information delivery platform. Geeks.com brought this news to our attention in their article, "Mimesi Selects Expert System to Strengthen its Media Monitoring Platform."