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.

Silver Linings

By |March 26th, 2013|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Silver Linings

Organizations that help manage and analyze medical content have a unique opportunity during this time of ICD-10 transition. Healthcare entities are recognizing the need for sharing clinical data. This trend has been accelerated by the transition. This interesting information was found on Reuters in their article, “Wolters Kluwer Health to Acquire Health Language, Inc., a Leader in the Medical Terminology Management Market.”

Semantic Web and Natural Language

By |March 26th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Web and Natural Language

Natural language user interfaces are becoming more and more popular. Creations like Siri promise to improve every facet of our lives from emergency situations to shopping. The semantic web has birthed this phenomonaly successful technology. Through the use of standardized tags and formats, the semantic web builds a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning. This takes it many steps past simply being searchable by keyword.

Preparing for the Move

By |March 26th, 2013|News|Comments Off on Preparing for the Move

Moving part or all of an organization's resources into the cloud is a step that should not be taken lightly. There is much to consider and reconsider as your business needs change. Governance is about taking action to help your organization optimize and manage your systems and resources to meet your business goals.

Court Ruling Affirms Libraries

By |March 25th, 2013|News|Comments Off on Court Ruling Affirms Libraries

The U.S. Supreme Court has supported consumer rights and libraries in the high-profile Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons, Inc. case by ruling that goods lawfully made overseas are protected by the first sale doctrine. This particular case focused on whether Americans and businesses had the right to sell, lend, or give away the things they own that were made overseas.

SharePoint To The Rescue

By |March 25th, 2013|News|Comments Off on SharePoint To The Rescue

SharePoint users frequently share their biggest challenges in using the content management software. That list often contains problems with end user adoption, the inability to define and enforce adequate governance policies and procedures, and getting proper support. Not understanding how important taxonomies are to the overall success of SharePoint can often be at the core of these frustrations.

In Memory of Dr. Peter Noerr

By |March 22nd, 2013|Access Insights, News|Comments Off on In Memory of Dr. Peter Noerr

Dr. Peter Noerr was a towering intellectual force in the backrooms of the information industry. Quiet, infinitely curious, he created two systems and helped with many more. In his early days in South Africa he automated mining operations. Later he moved to Sweden and then to the UK. He created the TinLib system for IME. After selling that company he became MuseGlobal's founder a federated search and retrieval system which operates as middle ware in many of the systems we use today.

Everyone Can Use A Little Help

By |March 22nd, 2013|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Everyone Can Use A Little Help

For providers who are seeking some feedback and support about their ICD-10 transition plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a series of listening sessions.

Learn More About Content Management

By |March 22nd, 2013|News, Term lists|Comments Off on Learn More About Content Management

The DITA Content Management Strategies conference has added Carl Yao, CSOFT’s Executive Vice President for Global Strategy, to their roster of presenters. The convention is […]

Machine Learning

Tonight I was doing laundry while my husband was watching television in the other room. I am used to hearing words like military, marcupial, or wooly mammoth coming from his preferred viewing channels -- History, Discovery, or PBS. It took me a few minutes to realize what I was hearing sounded way too familiar to my world. Words like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and semantic technology came wafting through the house. I soon discovered the program was a NOVA feature, "Smartest Machine on Earth" on our local PBS channel.