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.

Solving Information Puzzles

By |September 8th, 2011|Access Insights, indexing, News|Comments Off on Solving Information Puzzles

All the talk is about big data, but what about changing data? If a knowledge domain doesn’t change, it becomes stagnant. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls are changing as more and more is discovered about them by different scientists and researchers. Change was the topic recently when, Access Innovations’ president, Margie Hlava, sat down with Steve Arnold, a technology and financial analyst, owner of ArnoldIT and writer of Beyond Search.

New Start-Up Using Semantic Search

By |September 8th, 2011|News, search, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Start-Up Using Semantic Search

Locu is a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers that plan to create the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data. Their goal is that this data source will increase the efficiency of local search.

CYIOS Focuses on the Team Approach

By |September 8th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on CYIOS Focuses on the Team Approach

CYIOS has submitted its patent application for CYIPRO with the USPTO. Their project-based management system reinforces the team approach by allowing everyone to work on goal centric projects. According to Timothy Carnahan, CEO of CYIOS, "If you're not working on a project within a team, then most likely you're not working toward the goals of the organization."

Storage Market Not Reflective of the Economy

By |September 7th, 2011|News, storage|Comments Off on Storage Market Not Reflective of the Economy

The analysts may keep screaming recession and the politicians are certainly talking about the economy 24/7, but in the storage software market things are looking pretty darn good. The storage software market has experienced seven consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth during the second quarter of 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Storage Software QView.

Is Semantic Search Trendy?

By |September 6th, 2011|News, search, semantic|1 Comment

Semantic search and extraction of data from natural language and pictures are continuing to increase in popularity. As evidence of that trend, Hewlett-Packard recently […]

Crowdsourcing Needs a Solid Taxonomy

By |September 6th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|1 Comment

Editing by committee is a prolonged, mostly painful, process that quite often sends me running away seeking refuge among my own office and my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.

Font Awareness

Shelf Awareness is a Web-based resource for readers and those in the book trade. It was brought my attention by Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness’s book review editor. (Full disclosure, Marilyn is my cousin.) I bring this wonderful resource to your attention for a variety of reasons not the least of which is their free email newsletter service for readers and one for professionals in the book trade. Twice a week I get an email containing reviews of a wide variety of new, recent, and sometimes classic, fiction and nonfiction works.

Cost Reduction Options for Hospitals

By |September 5th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, News, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on Cost Reduction Options for Hospitals

Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements […]

PatentVista Manages Patents with Taxonomies

By |September 5th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on PatentVista Manages Patents with Taxonomies

UBM TechInsights has released the next generation of PatentVista, a patent portfolio management software. PatentVista provides an intuitive interface designed to help licensing teams make better decisions. The taxonomy tool enables organizations to leverage their internal expertise to organize, rate, review and search their patents.

ICD-10 Projects Increasing

By |September 2nd, 2011|indexing, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ICD-10 Projects Increasing

IT management and healthcare professionals across the country are ramping up projects to create their ICD-10 plan as the December 13, 2013 deadline date nears. Everyone is facing common challenges of budget, bandwidth, staffing, training and of course, technical issues.