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.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3

By |February 20th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3

This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL - Extract Transform and Load.

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Understanding Linked Data

By |February 20th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Understanding Linked Data

Sometimes when you work in an industry or are affiliated with it, you start throwing around terminology and acronyms that not everyone may completely understand. I hope we don’t practice this behavior here at TaxoDiary on a regular basis, but I fear it may have happened on occasion.

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Industry Meeting on Search in Nice

By |February 20th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on Industry Meeting on Search in Nice

There is a meeting coming up soon in Nice that might be worth your consideration. Granted, any meeting in Nice would be worth my consideration, but this one offers more than a great location. This is an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus of this meeting is on tools for intelligence and the meeting examines the requirements of specialists in scientific and technical information

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Making the Step to Auto-Classification

By |February 17th, 2012|Autoindexing, News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Many turn to auto-classification systems to find some level of consistency and scalability, especially when (and this is very common) there are more than one indexer tagging content. There seems to be a feeling that moving to auto-classification systems requires a sacrifice of rich and quality indexing.

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Semantic Technology Enhancing Discovery Process

By |February 17th, 2012|News, semantic|1 Comment

A new version of eView has been released by Integreon that features adaptive coding technology to automate categorization, prioritization, and batch coding during the […]

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Technology vs. Humans

By |February 17th, 2012|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Technology vs. Humans

Many articles have been written about the progress or avalanche (depending on your perspective) of technology and the resulting amount of data that has occurred from that growth. With the move into the clouds, the borders or walls have been removed on the boundaries of data created and accessed. From social media to medical applications, metadata is growing by astronomical numbers. So what new markets or new products are to come to handle this data volume?

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AMA Seeking to Stop ICD-10 Transition

By |February 16th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on AMA Seeking to Stop ICD-10 Transition

The American Medical Association is appealing to Speaker of the House John Boehner to halt the ICD-10 coding classification transition. Many are questioning whether this is a political decision and should be drug into the boxing ring of the government. With a compliance deadline of October 2013, it seems a little late to stop that particular train.

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Siri Has Competition

By |February 16th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Siri Has Competition

The recently made popular personal assistant from iPhone, Siri, is quickly gaining competition in the mobile phone market. Meet Evi. Created by True Knowledge, Evi can also answer questions based on voice and in a conversational manner. However, one of the differences between Evi and Siri, is Evi is an application available on phones and Android software.

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ICD-10 Transition Raises Concern

By |February 15th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on ICD-10 Transition Raises Concern

MedAptus’s Professional Intelligent Charge Capture solution was named the Mobile Data Systems Category Leader by KLAS. This twice awarded honor was based on positive customer feedback in areas such as product quality, implementation and support.

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Semantic Technology Used to Read Consumers’ Minds

By |February 15th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used to Read Consumers’ Minds

Twelvefold Media helps brands target, reach and persuade engaged audiences. Their Mindset Index is essentially a searchable database that contains about 1.5 billion pieces of publicly viewable internet content. Their platform looks at the page level in real time and taps into the mindset of their consumers.

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