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.

Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval

By |December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing|Comments Off on Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
First published in Information Today

So far this column has covered design considerations for the building of a database. Editorial guidelines have […]

Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

By |December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, reference|Comments Off on Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.
Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, […]

OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

By |December 8th, 2010|Access Insights, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO of Access Innovations, Inc.

Access Innovations, Inc.What do you make of “198”?  You could assume a number.  Computer applications […]

Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Thesaurus with Thesaurus Master or MAIstro

by Barbara Gilles, Access Innovations thesaurian

Observing the practices described below for building a thesaurus will help ensure:

Effective searches to enable actual retrieval
A rich and […]