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.

Semantic Search and What the Future Holds

By |May 31st, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search and What the Future Holds

Google’s latest leg of their journey is the unveiling of the Knowledge Graph. This 500 million plus fact-filled database was developed from its own research and its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies. The graph is set to make searching faster and more comprehensive.

Another Dog in the Fight

By |May 30th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Another Dog in the Fight

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has gone on record approving the postponement of the ICD 10 transition until 2014.

OpenText Recognized by Forrester Wave

By |May 30th, 2012|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on OpenText Recognized by Forrester Wave

The Forrester Wave report classified OpenText and Autonomy as leaders for their strong, enterprise-class solutions.

Healthline’s Consumer Engagement Platform Released

By |May 29th, 2012|News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Healthline’s Consumer Engagement Platform Released

Healthline Networks has released their Healthline Consumer Engagement Platform. This suite of technology and content services offers rich personalization capabilities.

The Confusion Continues

By |May 29th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Confusion Continues

The concerns over the deadline of the ICD-10 coding classification transition switched over to concerns over the delay of the deadline in the past few months. This left many healthcare organizations in flux. Now the American Medical Association (AMA) says it wants the ICD-10 implementation date delayed to Oct. 1, 2015.

Silverchair and American Medical Association Working Together

By |May 29th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Silverchair and American Medical Association Working Together

The American Medical Association (AMA) has introduced the semantic online hosting platform, JAMA Network. This comes from Silverchair Information Systems and is built on the semantic SCM6-- a real-world application of semantic theory.

Giving Credit

By |May 28th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Giving Credit

While watching the end of a movie last night to see where exactly it was filmed, I paid attention to the credits. Coming from a publishing perspective, I tried matching what they list to what we capture about the author, researcher, and creator in a bibliographic citation. What are the matches? The film lists the animation team, the animal handlers, the costume designers, the makeup artists, the photographers, the accounting team, and on and on and on. There are hundreds of people behind the scenes, and they are all listed in the credits. What do we list for a team of 3000 researchers working on a big data project? We cite a few authors with a spare affiliation line and an acknowledgement to the funders. What about the rest of the contributors? Are there others that should be cited?

The Costs Continue to Rise

By |May 28th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Costs Continue to Rise

The debate surrounding an ICD-10 delay continues after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) indicated its intention to push the deadline back one year to Oct 1., 2014. While many providers are struggling to get a handle on ICD-10, some have made strides in the implementation process and could be hurt financially by the delay.

ClinicalKey Released To Healthcare Market

By |May 28th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on ClinicalKey Released To Healthcare Market

Elsevier has released ClinicalKey, their clinical insight engine powered by Smart Content. This new release maps the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty, to a proprietary medical taxonomy. ClinicalKey aims to provide more clinically relevant answers than conventional search engines, saving doctors’ time and informing decisions that can improve outcomes.

Personal Semantic Web

By |May 25th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Personal Semantic Web

A new online application has moved from private to public beta and it allows you to build and view a website with massive amounts of data arranged in an easily understandable manner. Silk is an online application that tries to tap into the "semantic" Web by collecting and displaying information from the Internet, from your own documents, and from other sources. The idea is to let people select "the data they want from the mass of information available, and to view and arrange it in ways that make sense to them."