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.

The Risks and Rewards of Semantic Technology

By |June 22nd, 2011|News, semantic|2 Comments

Though semantic technology is ever more popular these days and is the new cool toy most organizations want to play with, there are some that are still afraid of what is to them, the unknown. Is that an understandable fear? Yes. Is it a well-informed fear? Maybe.

Semantic Categorization Technology On the Ticket

By |June 22nd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Categorization Technology On the Ticket

FirstRain was selected by international commercial law firm, Bird & Bird, to be part of their Library and Information Services team. One of the selling points was FirstRain’s semantic categorization technology that filters out the noise of the general Web, providing targeted, global company, market and sales intelligence.

ABBYY Selected by Ingram Micro

By |June 21st, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on ABBYY Selected by Ingram Micro

ABBYY and Fujitsu have been selected by Ingram Micro to provide content management solutions to their growing community of IT resellers. Ingram Micro's Content Management Program focuses on identifying and providing IT resellers with solutions they can offer to SMBs to simplify the capture, management, storage, preservation and delivery of documents and information.

Anzo Information Suite Adds New Tool

By |June 21st, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Anzo Information Suite Adds New Tool

Cambridge Semantics has announced the latest addition to its flagship Anzo Information Suite, Anzo Connect complemented by the new Anzo Formula Language.

Introducing Epic Marketplace

By |June 21st, 2011|News, Technology|Comments Off on Introducing Epic Marketplace

Epic Media Group has established the Epic Marketplace, a comprehensive, unified marketplace that combines all their multichannel digital advertising capabilities. This follows their previously released Traffic Marketplace and formally concludes its post-acquisition integration efforts.

From Simple to Complex

By |June 20th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, ontology, Standards, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on From Simple to Complex

People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.

KeyMark Chosen for Document Management Solution

By |June 20th, 2011|indexing, News|1 Comment

Loudon Mutual Insurance Company has chosen KeyMark Inc. for their document management solution in an effort to improve processes and increase efficiency.

Data Governance – Help or Hindrance?

By |June 17th, 2011|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Data Governance – Help or Hindrance?

Data governance seems to be an increasingly popular topic these days. The chatter around it isn’t all good either. It seems most organizations don’t like data governance. They see it as too complicated or requiring too much change, or not in their job description.