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.

Making Thesaurus Terms Work for Indexing

By |November 5th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, indexing|Comments Off on Making Thesaurus Terms Work for Indexing

We’ve already discussed indexing. We are going to assign those terms to the documents based on the concepts. A thesaurus is also known as an indexing language. We’re controlling the synonyms – different terms for the same concept. They are polythemes or homonyms, depending on if you are European or stateside. They are the same words with different meanings, like lead.

Those Were The Days

By |November 2nd, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Those Were The Days

Search engine optimization used to be fairly straightforward. You include the right keywords to your website and when someone conducted a search containing those same words, you showed up in the results. Not so much anymore.

Accessing the Clouds

By |November 2nd, 2012|News, storage|Comments Off on Accessing the Clouds

Even though the term “cloud” is thrown about frequently these days, to many, it is still not clear exactly what the cloud offers, where it, is and how to access it.

Webinars To Help Prepare for Transition

By |November 1st, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Webinars To Help Prepare for Transition

The deadline for compliance with the ICD-10 coding classification may not be until October 2014, but healthcare providers are working hard on preparing for the change. Because of this, Dolbey is hosting a series of webinars focusing on computer-assisted coding (CAC).

Findability is Dependent on Access

By |November 1st, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Findability is Dependent on Access

Healthline Networks’ health reference site -- Healthline.com -- launched its Consumer Engagement Platform. This new site enables health insurers and businesses to offer members and employees contextual searching of health data from electronic health records and medical claims.

Semantic Competition

By |November 1st, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Competition

The future of search has some pretty impressive players vying for the lead position. Google and Apple are harnessing semantic technology to take them to the finish line.

The Fear Factor

By |October 31st, 2012|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on The Fear Factor

The fear factor increases every day we grow closer to the ICD-10 coding classification implementation. Rumors abound at the potential impact almost as much as the Y2K scare of the last decade.

Standards Were Celebrated

By |October 31st, 2012|News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards Were Celebrated

Did you celebrate? October 18, 2012 was World Standards Day 2012 and a celebration was held in Washington, DC. ANSI and NIST co-chaired the U.S. celebration, which included exhibition, reception, and dinner.