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.

First Data Convergence Cloud Launched

By |April 10th, 2012|News|Comments Off on First Data Convergence Cloud Launched

Governor Pat Quinn, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently unveiled www.MetroChicagoData.org, the nation's first data convergence cloud that brings public data from the City of Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois into a single Open Data portal. With easy access by residents and businesses in the Metro Chicago area, this enhances the previous Internet offering.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 10 (Taxonomies in SharePoint)

I hope this series on search has been helpful to users and professionals alike. Let’s close with a look at taxonomies in SharePoint. Let’s look at this data flow in another way. We have incoming information; going to dump into a repository. We need to add metadata to that repository. We want to add taxonomy terms. The taxonomy terms all need to be controlled or suggested. So, there’s a backend to do that. Once we have the data in that repository it could be exported to a SQL or a relational database, transactional system, for e-commerce. It might be put into a repository so that the full displays can be done. It might be loaded into a search system and you also might have a presentation layer for display.

Delay or Change Direction?

By |April 9th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Delay or Change Direction?

The announcement made by the CMS and HHS last month to delay the compliance deadline for the ICD-10 transitions has created a lot of concerns and discussion. Many wonder what is next, should they stop their progress or continue on?

Semantic Technology Used by Insurance Firm

By |April 9th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used by Insurance Firm

Helvetia Seguros has placed their trust in the semantic search engine of the semantic web and artificial intelligence firm iSOCO, in an attempt to improve the insurance company’s current incident management system.

More than the Masters Happening in Georgia

By |April 6th, 2012|News|1 Comment

The first annual North American SHARE conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, April 23 to Thursday, April 26, 2012.

Tips for Search Engine Optimization Strategy

By |April 6th, 2012|News, search|1 Comment

Search engine optimization continues to be challenging, especially a complete redesign. Doing it right is worth the investment and can result in worthy rewards.

Access Innovations, Inc. Creates Taxonomy For Iowa Code, Administrative Code and Acts

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.

Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

By |April 5th, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Calling for Volunteers, Data Junkies May Be Interested

The Lake County Genealogical Society now is seeking volunteers to help index the census for Lake County when it is released in April. Once the indexing is complete, users will be able to locate a person of interest among the 132 million names in the census. Once the indexing work is completed, its contents will be available for free for anyone wishing to access it.