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.

Atempo and Dell Partnership Continues

By |June 3rd, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Atempo and Dell Partnership Continues

Atempo announced that Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) has been certified for the Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform. The continues the long-standing partnership between Atempo and Dell.

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Defining the Clouds

By |June 3rd, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Defining the Clouds

Cloud computing is a hot topic these days. But for some, it is still ambiguous in definition. Here is a quick, easy-to-remember way of explaining cloud computing. Starting at the most basic, there is an infrastructure cloud which includes the physical components that run applications and store data. Next is content cloud. It implements metadata and indexing services over the infrastructure cloud to provide abstracted data management for all content.

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Cayman Islands Pack Up and Move

By |June 2nd, 2011|indexing, News, storage|Comments Off on Cayman Islands Pack Up and Move

The Department of Planning in the Cayman Islands is moving and Ignition Ltd. will be making that process just a little easier by scanning, indexing and storing over 30,000 documents. This relocation of is part of a bigger picture effort to move many departments to the same location.

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Semantic Technology for the Foodie

By |June 2nd, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology for the Foodie

dishtip allows users to search for specific food dishes and corresponding restaurants.  Seems simple, but this information does not exist on any other website. dishtip […]

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Is Smell-a-Vision Next?

By |June 2nd, 2011|semantic|Comments Off on Is Smell-a-Vision Next?

Bluefin Labs is a technology company grounded in cognitive science research. It recently announced that it has begun pilot testing initiatives that will provide an actionable, key link between TV and social media.

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Watson: Fan or Foe?

By |June 1st, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Watson: Fan or Foe?

Months after the event, experts continue to ponder how and why Watson was able to trump two human competitors on the television game show, Jeopardy. They also muse on the attention this event has brought back to IBM.

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uniFlow V5 Offers New Functions

By |June 1st, 2011|indexing, News|Comments Off on uniFlow V5 Offers New Functions

Panabiz International Limited has introduced the latest Canon uniFlow Version 5 software into the market. This new software claims to provide greater efficiency to copying, scanning, printing, and minimizing waste – therefore reducing costs.

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Google and Bing Back At It

By |June 1st, 2011|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Google and Bing Back At It

Only a few months after accusing Microsoft’s Bing of copying their search results, Google was found to be indexing millions of image thumbnails from Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

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Digital Library Smackdown

By |May 31st, 2011|News|Comments Off on Digital Library Smackdown

The Digital Public Library of America initiative has created a lively debate on the DPLA's discussion listserv about how any such institution should be constituted. David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryCity.org and founder of TeleRead, has been advocating for well-stocked national digital libraries for many years and is an active participant on the listserv.

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The Age of the New Portal

By |May 31st, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Age of the New Portal

Not so long ago, every organization wanted a portal to keep up with The Jones, or the Microsofts, as the case may be. Because of this, the quality of portals went downhill as did their promise results. What you are left with are organizations struggling to provide appropriate access to portlets and organizations with poor taxonomy and metadata practices importing its content only to find illegible titles and search indexes.

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