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.

Predictability is Not a Bad Thing

By |May 30th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Predictability is Not a Bad Thing

We know that building a taxonomy is not easy. It requires research, building of terms, identifying criteria, and the list goes on and on. And we all know that it doesn’t always go smoothly and in predictable order.

Comprehensive Findability

By |May 30th, 2013|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Comprehensive Findability

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Platform to enhance its scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly (STMS) content. The result will be search and discovery tools providing professional and academic researchers faster and better findability.

New Partnership in Data Management

By |May 29th, 2013|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on New Partnership in Data Management

Semantic Web Company (SWC) and OpenLink Integration Business Partner Program have joined together, making Virtuoso an important part of SWC's products and services.

The Power of Semantics

By |May 29th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on The Power of Semantics

It is no secret that Yahoo has purchased the microblogging site, Tumblr. However, it seems confusing to some as to why a small player in the world of search (and getting smaller), invested over a billion dollars in something that has no solid business model. The answer is semantics.

Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers

By |May 29th, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group: Call for Papers

The Tenth Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting has been scheduled for February 10-14, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You are cordially invited to join us for this milestone meeting.

Internet of Things Forum Continues Planning

By |May 28th, 2013|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Internet of Things Forum Continues Planning

Three more impressive names have been added to the roster for the BLN Internet of Things Forum 2013 (BLN IoT13) scheduled for June 27, 2013. Dr. John Davies, Head of Semantic Technology at BT, Stan Boland, CEO of Neul, and lastly Cees Link, CEO of GreenPeak Technologies.

Legislation Could Impact ICD-10

By |May 28th, 2013|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Legislation Could Impact ICD-10

After years of planning and complaining, healthcare organizations are beyond knee-deep in preparing for the ICD-10 coding classification transition due by October 1, 2014. Ironically, there is now legislation introduced in the U.S. House would prohibit the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) from mandating that physicians use ICD-10 diagnosis codes.

Points of Knowledge

By |May 27th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Points of Knowledge

To deal with a large body of knowledge, we need to localize and organize it somehow. Where that knowledge is located, or where and how it is organized, or the system by which it is identified and perhaps indexed, might be called the points of knowledge. And certainly, databases connected to and/or indexed with knowledge organization systems represent points of knowledge.

Making Data Accessible

By |May 27th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Making Data Accessible

EBSCO and Data-Planet have reached an agreement that will put statistical DataSheetsthat within a discovery service. This growing collection of more than 5,000 summary-level data records from Data-Planet will be available within EBSCO Discovery Service allowing mutual customers to link directly to Data-Planet DataSheets.

Semantic Search is Challenging the Norm

By |May 27th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search is Challenging the Norm

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search is the evaluation of enterprise search software. A group of analyst evaluate different providers based on criteria such as market penetration, ingenuity, and strength of implementation. Those being evaluated are then placed in one of four categories: Challengers, Leaders, Visionaries, and Niche Players. Mindbreeze was one of those being evaluated and they were categorized as "challengers".