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 Powers Robot

By |October 7th, 2011|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Powers Robot

The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.

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Semantic Technology Used in Epidemiologic Study

By |October 7th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used in Epidemiologic Study

The Millennium Cohort Study is a longitudinal cohort study designed in the late 1990s to evaluate how military service may affect long-term health. To perform these analyses, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was applied to a broad open-ended question asking the participant if there were any additional health concerns.

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Go With the ICD 10 Flow

By |October 6th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Go With the ICD 10 Flow

During the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference in Salt Lake City this week, a World Health Organization (WHO) official urged health care organizations to move forward with the transition to ICD-10 code sets.

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Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

By |October 6th, 2011|News|Comments Off on Metalogix Meets the Need for Speed

Metalogix Software released Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint 5.0 as a solution to the ever-increasing growth of SharePoint farms, a situation that has only been around since the launch of SharePoint 2010.

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Alfresco Releases New Platform

By |October 6th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Alfresco Releases New Platform

Open source content management provider Alfresco has released their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne.

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SharePoint Architecture Webinar

By |October 5th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on SharePoint Architecture Webinar

Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the Why Information Architecture on SharePoint webinar will be held Wednesday, October 12th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).

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A Taxonomy of Food

By |October 5th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on A Taxonomy of Food

Can you imagine what a flavor looks like? Can you visualize or describe what an apple tastes like? Data visualists David McCandless and Willow Tyrer have explored 1,000 recipes from BBC Food and Epicurious to visualize flavor patterns. The result is a series of visualization of complimentary flavors or infoodgraphics.

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New Document Management Resource

By |October 5th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on New Document Management Resource

Iron Mountain has opened a document scanning and indexing center to help organizations across Europe make the most of their information within stringent national and EU regulation. The center uses the latest technology to provide a suite of document management services for organizations of all sizes and from all sectors.

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Costs Deter Move to Electronic Health Records

By |October 4th, 2011|indexing, News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Costs Deter Move to Electronic Health Records

Physicians are notoriously slow in implementing electronic health records (EHRs) within their office systems. The government has been feverishly trying to get doctors to use these systems for some time, but despite assurances of security and ultimately, cost savings, some physicians remain skeptical.

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Opening the Channels of Communication

By |October 4th, 2011|News, Technology|1 Comment

You think the left hand and right hand at your organization doesn’t know what each other are doing? Imagine how much government agencies keep their information “close to the vest.” Territories, power and influence are magnified in the nation’s capital and make your organizational silos look like Lego blocks. Now, don’t you feel sorry for the people responsible for managing government IT departments?

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