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 Release from NISO Provides Common XML Format

By |August 23rd, 2012|News, Standards|Comments Off on New Release from NISO Provides Common XML Format

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new American National Standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012.

The Growth of Technology

By |August 23rd, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on The Growth of Technology

The folks at LearnStuff have prepared a fascinating infographic on the growth of technology (especially information technology) in education.

Investing in Taxonomies

We have written many times about the massive amount of data being created in this digital era. One additional problem in this chaotic whirlwind is the naming by random employees or users of the data. This inconsistent approach makes it difficult to locate and retrieve critical files once they are saved into the hodgepodge naming system.

Webinar Series To Prepare for ICD-10

By |August 20th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Webinar Series To Prepare for ICD-10

Availity has announced a four-part webinar series designed to help medical providers prepare for impending inpatient diagnosis and procedure code changes associated with ICD-10.

Symmetric Multi-Processing Featured

By |August 16th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Symmetric Multi-Processing Featured

Allegro CL V9.0 has been released, bringing symmetric multi-processing capabilities that result in faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications.