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.

SharePoint 2010 Implementation Navigation

By |September 13th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on SharePoint 2010 Implementation Navigation

SharePoint 2010 deployment requires some process planning. Few would argue with that. But even with the best laid plans and intentions, there can be annoying and problematic issues.

US Army & AI

By |September 13th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on US Army & AI

Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army's Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.

Large Data Sets and Ever Changing Terminology

Indexing enables accurate, consistent retrieval to the full depth and breadth of the collection. This does not mean that the statistics-based systems the government loves so much, will go away but, they are learning to embrace the addition of taxonomy terms as indexing.

ICD-10 System Has 5x the Codes

3M, the designers of the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System, will help the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prep its computer systems for ICD-10 coding.

Platform as a Service Has a Following

By |September 12th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Platform as a Service Has a Following

The "IPS" taxonomy - Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service – has become an integral part of cloud computing. Cloud providers are particularly fond of Platform as a Service (PaaS) as they think it is crucial but profitable market. For users, not so much.

Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository

By |September 9th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository

The EDM Council has completed the ontology work necessary to add corporate actions to its Semantics Repository, and now plans to work with the Object Management Group (OMG) to make the repository an ontology standard.

Musical Taxonomy Takes Another Step

By |September 9th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Musical Taxonomy Takes Another Step

One of the more popular users in taxonomies, Pandora – the Music Genome Project, is now offering channels specifically geared to workouts.

Clearing the Clouds

By |September 9th, 2011|News|Comments Off on Clearing the Clouds

There seems to be a lot of fear around the security of clouds. Is it justified? Or is it amplified in an effort to preserve the status quo? Many professionals are asking these very questions, and recently so did ESG Research.