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.

Ontology-Based Semantics Bring Search Solutions

By |April 5th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Ontology-Based Semantics Bring Search Solutions

RiverGlass has launched Release 3.0 of its Semantic Text Analyzer (STAn), promising improvements in natural language processing.

Taxonomy Standardization is Going On Everywhere

By |April 4th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy Standardization is Going On Everywhere

The entire idea of using a controlled vocabulary, a.k.a. thesaurus, a.k.a. ontology, a.k.a. taxonomy, a.k.a. authority file, a.k.a. a pick list, a.k.a. attribute table --is to standardize the nomenclature an organization uses to tag, keyword, add descriptors, controlled vocabulary, subject heading, content tags, semantic indexing, etc., to their content so it can be found, searched, retrieved,… well, you get the idea.

Wine Application Also a Great Teaching Tool

By |April 4th, 2011|News, ontology, reference|Comments Off on Wine Application Also a Great Teaching Tool

Another piece of software using semantic technology to help our dining experience be just a little bit better. I don’t know about you, but this gets my attention.

Teaching in the Web 3.0 World

How are the semantic web, mobile web, and the immersive Internet changing the way we learn and deliver learning? One author takes on that question and addresses how roles have changed in the process.

Standards Are Necessary To Fight Cyber Theft

By |April 1st, 2011|News, Standards, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Standards Are Necessary To Fight Cyber Theft

Security issues and cyber theft continue to grow in complexity as technology itself advances. Standard metrics and measurements are essential when assessing IT resilience.

Ontology Competition

By |April 1st, 2011|News, ontology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Ontology Competition

Rearden Commerce has announced its sponsorship of a category of The World Championship for Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), Large Theory division. The competition showcases the latest advancements in logical reasoning.

New Partnership Brings Content Management and Social Software Together

By |March 31st, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Partnership Brings Content Management and Social Software Together

Alfresco has joined forces with Jive Software to bring content management into social software’s neighborhood.

Workshop on Semantics and Services

By |March 31st, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Workshop on Semantics and Services

Atwood Technology is hosting the third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS3) at its headquarters in Miramichi, New Brunswick, on May 18, 2011.

Frankfurt Conference Addresses Artificial Intelligence

By |March 30th, 2011|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Frankfurt Conference Addresses Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the topic of a conference in Frankfurt, Germany scheduled for August 15-20, 2011. AICOL (AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems) 2011 is set to further develop models of legal knowledge, concerning its organization, structure and content, in order to promote mutual understanding and communication between different legal systems and cultures.