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.

Workshop on Automated Reasoning

By |April 19th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Workshop on Automated Reasoning

A workshop on automated reasoning about context and ontology evolution will take place in Barcelona, Spain on July 17-18, 2011.

The Power Of Survey Taxonomies To Skew The Results The Way You Want Them

I went to the doctor’s office this week and they asked if I would participate in a short Federal survey. I said sure. What followed was beyond frustrating.

New Grant Funds Digital Research Center

By |April 18th, 2011|News, reference, Uncategorized|Comments Off on New Grant Funds Digital Research Center

Emory University is soon to have a coffeehouse-like environment in which students can work in cross-discipline collaboration and allow researcher access to the library’s vast experts on all things library. This will differ from other digital research centers because of the cross-discipline collaboration potential.

What Does the Future Hold for Libraries?

By |April 18th, 2011|News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on What Does the Future Hold for Libraries?

A table of powerhouses gathered to discussion a slew of topics from the impact of cloud computing and open source ILSs to issues surrounding user engagement, the digital divide, and declining library budgets.

Location Development Tackles Huge Hurdles

By |April 15th, 2011|News, semantic, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Location Development Tackles Huge Hurdles

Fwix founder speaks about the challenges they have faced in location development and their solutions.

Web 3.0 Taking Us To New Levels

By |April 15th, 2011|News, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Web 3.0 Taking Us To New Levels

Everyone is trying to define Web 3.0. Is that because there are many definitions – data, semantic, etc.? And therefore, much potential?

More Semantic Technology News

LexisNexis has debuted their new semantic search “brain”. The next-generation semantic search technology identifies the meaning of multiple concepts within a single search query to help users zero in on core concepts faster and make fewer revisions to their search queries.

Access Innovations Announces Integration of Data Harmony® With Microsoft® SharePoint 2010

By |April 14th, 2011|Access Insights, Autoindexing, Business strategy, indexing, News, semantic, Standards, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Access Innovations Announces Integration of Data Harmony® With Microsoft® SharePoint 2010

Access Innovations, a leader in the data and content management industry, has announced that its Data Harmony suite of content enrichment and thesaurus management tools can now be fully integrated with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Data Harmony fills semantic gaps in SharePoint to help users take full advantage of their metadata through auto classification, enterprise taxonomy management, entity extraction, and search enhancements. The end result is information assets that are more searchable and more accessible.

New SharePoint Blog Launched

By |April 14th, 2011|Business strategy, indexing, News, ontology, semantic, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on New SharePoint Blog Launched

A news service that covers news and information about SharePoint content processing and semantic technology for Microsoft SharePoint has been launched.

Lexalytics Evolves to Semantic Technology

By |April 14th, 2011|News, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Lexalytics Evolves to Semantic Technology

Lexalytics, Inc. has announced a major upgrade to its Salience product, bringing semantic features to the forefront.