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 Semantic Social Application

By |February 18th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Semantic Social Application

Gravity has built a semantic analysis engine intended to gauge a site visitor's interest by looking beyond just the articles they read, and into their behavior. This technology has attracted various funders, so apparently someone thinks there is a future for Gravity.

Internal Search Should Not Be Overlooked

By |February 15th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Internal Search Should Not Be Overlooked

Search and search strategy are common topics across the world of technology, retail, and the Internet. But what about on your own intranet? Much is said and written about search optimization for the external sites, but ensuring that your own staff can find information to serve your customers is just as important.

Don’t Lower Your Standards

Pingar recently introduced its beta Taxonomy Generator Service, which will enable enterprises to generate instant taxonomies from an analysis of the content on large internal document sets.

The Taxonomy of Love

By |February 14th, 2013|News, Taxonomy|2 Comments

Because it is the famously sweet Hallmark holiday and I am feeling a bit silly, I went on search for a Taxonomy of Love. What better day than Valentine's Day than to dissect and tear apart what others see as mystical and ethereal?

Making a Path in the Data

By |February 14th, 2013|News, ontology|Comments Off on Making a Path in the Data

Enterprise metadata can be messy, and many organizations choose to ignore it - sort of a Scarlett O'Hara mentality of “I'll deal with it tomorrow.” The real angst stems from having no metaprocess information or higher level process descriptions.

Standards are Needed

By |February 13th, 2013|indexing, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards are Needed

MedTouch has launched two strategic websites: washington.providence.org and montana.providence.org. Both websites are powered by the MedTouch Healthcare Accelerator Package for Sitecore.

Indexing Hullabaloo

By |February 13th, 2013|indexing, News|2 Comments

If indexing is an art to you, then this event will be right up your alley. "The Art and Craft of Indexing" is the theme at the American Society for Indexing's annual conference in San Antonio, TX on April 17-20, 2013.

TEMIS Product Awarded

By |February 12th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on TEMIS Product Awarded

TEMIS recently announced that Luxid Content Enrichment Platform was named a winner for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards for "Best Semantic Technology Solution". Included in the winners are the information industry's best products, technologies, and services.

What is the Financial Burden?

By |February 12th, 2013|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on What is the Financial Burden?

Many are concerned about the financial burden that the ICD-10 implementation might create for healthcare providers. However, there are some ways the physicians can improve the clinical documentation and therefore the coding reimbursements. Being creatures of habit, they have tended to rely on memorized codes. If the reliance on memorization is minimized, reimbursements can improve. There are more anatomic specific codes in the new system, and that makes memorization even more difficult.

Inverted Files, Parsing, Discovery, and Clustering

By |February 11th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, search|Comments Off on Inverted Files, Parsing, Discovery, and Clustering

Last time, I told you that inverted files and Boolean are basic to most or all search. So, what we have is the inverted file – that big alphabetical list of all the terms and where they came from – and a way to combine them. At the end of the day, no matter which direction you come from on the high end and even higher presentation levels, you are depending on these two to make it work. If you add that taxonomy to that, you are strengthening the use of your terms.