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.

New Partnership to Address Big Data

By |July 15th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Partnership to Address Big Data

Smartlogic and eTouch Systems have announced a partnership to deliver enterprise content management and search solutions. The partnership grew out of a two-year project with NASA that improved the space agency's findability of their content.

File Cabinets In the Sky?

By |July 12th, 2013|News, storage|Comments Off on File Cabinets In the Sky?

Combining their cloud-based storage with the voice recording skills of Orange Trading Solutions, Bloomberg can now integrate voice data into the Bloomberg Vault and produce electronic records in almost real time. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Watch Your Tone — Bloomberg Vault Now Archives Voice Too.”

Quality Takes Experience

By |July 11th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Quality Takes Experience

There is a webinar called, "Taxonomy – The User’s perspective", being offered on Wednesday, July 24 at 11:00 a.m. CET, presented by the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) classification expert Thom Clark.

How the Semantic Web Has Changed Us

By |July 11th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on How the Semantic Web Has Changed Us

The web changes daily and how we are or aren't changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, "David Amerland - Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search", used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.

Delivering Results

By |July 9th, 2013|Access Insights, News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Delivering Results

Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.

There’s Indexing and There’s Indexing: Report from the American Society for Indexing Conference

By |July 8th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, Taxonomy|Comments Off on There’s Indexing and There’s Indexing: Report from the American Society for Indexing Conference

The American Society for Indexing may be a little known group to most reading a blog dedicated to taxonomy work. Yet we share a focus on making content accessible, albeit through different strategies. The American Society of Indexers (ASI) was established in 1968 to promote the work of back-of-book indexers and facilitate their interaction. In 2008 it was renamed to the American Society for Indexing with the stated purpose “to promote excellence in indexing, and to serve indexers and others concerned with indexing.” The name change reflected a broadening of scope, including taxonomy work and coinciding with the establishment of the Taxonomy SIG (special interest group). ASI’s training course even includes a taxonomy construction module. The expansion is a response to the mushrooming of electronic content and increasing need for simplifying access to online materials. Yet, for the society focused on “indexing,” taxonomic indexing is called tagging and has seemed an afterthought at best. Indeed, few database indexers attend conferences, and there is little mention of their activity.

Awards for Semantic Technology

By |July 8th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Awards for Semantic Technology

Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google's concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.