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.

DoD Seeks Common Ontology

By |September 2nd, 2011|News, ontology|Comments Off on DoD Seeks Common Ontology

ARINC Engineering Services, LLC sent three recognized experts in U.S. Department of Defense supply chain management to provide instruction and chair several sessions at the 2011 DMSMS & Standardization Conference this week.

PowerSearch Releases V3.0

By |September 2nd, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on PowerSearch Releases V3.0

PowerSearch Software has released version 3.0 of their search technology product. New features include an increased reach by determining relevance for documents.

Changing Search Into Found

By |September 1st, 2011|Access Insights, indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Changing Search Into Found

With the volume of data doubling every four to six months, findability within that data has never been more important. Many are looking to indexing as the solution to this problem.

XenData Launches New Interface

By |September 1st, 2011|News, search, storage|Comments Off on XenData Launches New Interface

XenData will soon be unveiling a new interface at IBC 2011 that integrates the range of XenData archive server solutions with Harmonics Media Application Server and ProXplore, seamlessly.

What Drives Web 3.0?

By |August 31st, 2011|News, semantic|1 Comment

Some think the next generation of the Internet, i.e. Web 3.0, has not progressed as fast as originally predicted. Is this delay caused by lack of technology or lack of business ventures? I think we can all agree that business models and marketing within the Web 3.0 environment will need snazzy, dramatic changes to be received by the new culture and technology. The openness of the web and the dynamic semantic search capabilities have changed the landscape, and expectations.

Rearden Commerce Launches Deem

By |August 31st, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Rearden Commerce Launches Deem

Rearden Commerce will be combining the company’s business, consumer and merchant applications onto one smart commerce platform – Deem™. This move will connect buyers and sellers by bringing together new analytics and semantic data tagging technology.

UK Government Embracing Open Source

By |August 31st, 2011|News|Comments Off on UK Government Embracing Open Source

Embracing open source, the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom has chosen a proprietary software system to implement its goal and fulfill the government's election promise to eliminate bias against open source software.

Options for Reducing Patient Risk Due to Coding Errors

By |August 30th, 2011|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Options for Reducing Patient Risk Due to Coding Errors

The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ran a study examining ways to interpret data on electronic medical records to best address patient safety concerns. A developed a set of 20 measures, known as patient safety indicators, use administrative data to screen for potentially adverse events that occur during hospitalization.

Lucene 4.0 Focus of ApacheCon 2011

By |August 30th, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on Lucene 4.0 Focus of ApacheCon 2011

Apache Lucene 4.0 has been released and is garnering quite a bit of chatter, especially with the impending ApacheCon 2011. So what are the new features and more importantly, what does it mean to users?