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.

Indexing Needs A Solid Taxonomy

By |July 12th, 2011|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Indexing Needs A Solid Taxonomy

The National and University Library of Slovenia has adopted EBSCO's Discovery Service (EDS) to index their library resources into a single, searchable catalog.

Connecting Taxonomies

By |July 11th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Connecting Taxonomies

I’ve been asked if taxonomies can be connected. The thinking was, if these taxonomies are standardized, or at least mostly standardized, it seems that there should be a way that taxonomies can be connected in various organizational systems.

Unobvious Use for a Taxonomy

By |July 11th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Unobvious Use for a Taxonomy

It isn’t an obvious connection between beer and taxonomy development, but it is there if you give it more thought. The world’s most comprehensive beer taxonomy is now bigger than ever. A new poster design features 89 varieties of beer with over 200 representative quaffs, including glassware recommendations for each variety, and covers six square feet with beer-soaked information.

Another Social Network?

By |July 11th, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on Another Social Network?

Google+ has not overtaken social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but it is turning heads. Already hundreds of Facebook users from India are on Google+ via a beta testing phase.

Automation is a Good Thing

By |July 8th, 2011|Autoindexing, News|Comments Off on Automation is a Good Thing

A new partnership of Alfresco and Ephesoft will combine enterprise content management and cloud-ready capture. This will be a significant change as most capture technologies have not been given the benefit of automation. This new automated work flow element will help to capture processes. Documents that have been captured electronically via the use of imaging will be also provided improved intelligence.

SharePoint 2010 Used to Improve Efficiency

By |July 8th, 2011|News|Comments Off on SharePoint 2010 Used to Improve Efficiency

Northridge Systems is partnering with Chatham County, Georgia to analyze, define, build and deploy a private judicial portal on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform. […]

Semanticizing Managed Content

By |July 8th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semanticizing Managed Content

For those who believe in smart content and that it is necessary for semantic content, they might find Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) interesting. It provides a framework for semanticizing managed content.

Semantic Technology For Your Car

By |July 7th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology For Your Car

Voice recognition software continues to evolve and with semantic technology available, that progress has increased. Nowhere has this been more evident than in mobile applications. But mastering the subtleties of human language remains beyond the reach of even our most sophisticated technology.