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.

Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

By |January 3rd, 2013|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Plan Now to Attend the Data Harmony Users Group Meeting, February 18 – 20, 2013

Registration is now open for the Ninth Annual Data Harmony Users Group Meeting. Sessions will be held February 18-20, 2013 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DHUG meeting focuses on helping users get the most from their investment in the knowledge management software suite, which supports user organization of their information resources based on a well-built and systematically applied taxonomy or thesaurus.

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Mobile Taxonomy Launched

By |January 3rd, 2013|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Mobile Taxonomy Launched

Earley & Associates (E&A) have released Information Architecture (IA) and indexing services for mobile application providers. Their mobile content architecture services address taxonomy development, content tagging, and user interface design.

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Papal Tweets Get Analyzed

By |January 2nd, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Papal Tweets Get Analyzed

The Pope tweeted. Yes, you read correctly. Pope Benedict XVI, now known in the Twitter-sphere as @pontifex, tweeted for the first time on December 12, 2012. What did the Bishop of Rome have to talk about? Expert System analyzed a sample of over 15,000 tweets that followed the Pope's first official tweet and ranking at the top in topics were Jesus, faith and prayer, as well as hope, family, life, love, work and the gospel.

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Start with a Solid Foundation

By |January 2nd, 2013|indexing, News, Standards|Comments Off on Start with a Solid Foundation

lifeIMAGE offers cloud-based software that facilitates transferring, indexing, and searching for digital medical images to help prevent redundant patient exams. In addition to saving time and money, this can also reduce radiation exposure for patients. In addition, a cloud-based service can help providers securely and automatically share results of imaging exams in the cloud. lifeIMAGE products include open application software interfaces for healthcare information technology companies to use to facilitate data exchange between healthcare providers.

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Training is Recommended

By |January 1st, 2013|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Training is Recommended

With the ICD-10 conversion less than two years away, there are pressing issues for providers looking to implement the new coding classification system. At the top of the "to-do" list is education and training for the staff who will be directly involved in using the new ICD-10 codes.

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Semantic Search Provides Results

By |January 1st, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Provides Results

Getting search results that include more advertisements than results can be very aggravating. This is only getting worse as semantic search continues to evolve. The search engine takes into consideration other robust content they discern we are interested in and include it in the results.

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Enhancing SharePoint Features

By |January 1st, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Enhancing SharePoint Features

KWizCom announced the release of their new feature for SharePoint. Tagging Feature has customizable settings that make classifying information more accurate and therefore, the search results more comprehensive.

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RDF: A Wrapper for Metadata

By |December 31st, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on RDF: A Wrapper for Metadata

In information management, a wrapper is a program that translates tagged data into relational form, so that databases can deal with it. We’re interested in this because some of that tagged data includes subject terms, keywords, or whatever you want to call taxonomy terms that have been used to describe documents.

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Preparing for SharePoint 2013

By |December 31st, 2012|metadata, News|1 Comment

Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.

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Data Has to Be Managed

By |December 31st, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Has to Be Managed

Nuix is known for their information management technologies and now they have been issued a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on core features of the Nuix unstructured data indexing engine.

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