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.

The Benefits of Open Source

By |November 1st, 2011|News|Comments Off on The Benefits of Open Source

Apache developers started back in 2003 to develop an open source web search engine. After much work turning their vision into reality and many features such as capabilities for crawling the web and adding a web database for computing, storing and analyzing all web pages discovered, the project – named nutch – went in the Apache Incubator.

Super Database Based on Ontology

By |November 1st, 2011|News, ontology|Comments Off on Super Database Based on Ontology

Researchers at the RIKEN BioResource Center are developing a system that will be able to bring together all of the information saved in databases around the world to be accessible from a single terminal.

What’s in a name?

Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) True, but try finding the right document set for your current project by sniffing them out from within a database of 8 million similar smelling documents. This approach is all too common, very time consuming, and unreliable leaving you with aromatic, unpalatable results.

Back To School

By |October 31st, 2011|News, reference, semantic|Comments Off on Back To School

If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes - yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers "Machine Learning" free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.

The Evolving Librarian

By |October 31st, 2011|News|Comments Off on The Evolving Librarian

Those in the “biz” have been fully aware of the gradual demise of the traditional librarian in our industry. Traditional roles as reference clerks […]

Path to Innovation

By |October 28th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Path to Innovation

What is innovation management? It is similar to content management or content sharing. Maybe it should be called content liberation software since sharing knowledge is the acceptable behavior. How should a company approach innovation since it rarely just happens?

Beat the Clock

By |October 28th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Beat the Clock

Two years out from the deadline, less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are more than halfway ready for the ICD-10 implementation. The deadline for the conversion is Oct. 1, 2013.

Access Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method

By |October 27th, 2011|Access Insights, Autoindexing|Comments Off on Access Innovations Receives U.S. Patent for Unique MAIChem™ Software Search Method

Software Provides Fast, In-Depth, Broad and Consistently Accurate Searches of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Data Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in data integrity and content creation, has announced it has been awarded a U.S. Patent No. 8,046,212 for MAIChem™, a software-based method for searching chemical names in one or more text-containing documents that have been loaded into computer memory.

New Partnership Focusing on Semantic Enrichment

By |October 27th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Partnership Focusing on Semantic Enrichment

HighWire Press has entered into a strategic partnershp with TEMIS. HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid® software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers.

Long Established Ancestry Site Opens Doors to Non-Members

By |October 27th, 2011|indexing, News|1 Comment

The Church of the Latter-day Saints have long been the front runners in ancestry and family history. They were knee-deep in files before the […]