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.

Library Digitization for Free

By |November 30th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Library Digitization for Free

Treasures of Connecticut Libraries allows libraries to digitize, for free, up to 100 items in their collection, and then to upload their collection to a CONTENTdm site managed by the state library in Hartford. This collaboration is providing a relatively inexpensive model for libraries that want to expand awareness of their collections and demonstrate their value to a wider public.

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DotNetNuke 5.6 Has Been Released

By |November 29th, 2010|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on DotNetNuke 5.6 Has Been Released

DotNetNuke has released DotNetNuke 5.6, which includes the new DotNetNuke Site Search feature, enabling a more effective web site content search, and Enhanced Analytics Support, providing greater performance and control over the monitoring of web site traffic.

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Grant for Developing Digital Library Tools Awarded

By |November 29th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Grant for Developing Digital Library Tools Awarded

Engineering professors were recently awarded a National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (NSF DUE) grant to develop tools that will allow for easier curation of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).

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Data Harmony Users to Preview New Features, Options at 2011 Meeting

By |November 29th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, ontology, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Harmony Users to Preview New Features, Options at 2011 Meeting

Users of DataHarmony software from Access Innovations will have the opportunity to preview new features and options, train on how to get the most from the knowledge management software suite, learn from case studies throughout the globe, and discuss their experiences and challenges during the Seventh Annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting February 7-10, 2011 at Access Innovations, 4725 Indian School Road NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting will also feature a special seminar entitled “The Theory of Knowledge” presented by Marjorie Hlava, president of Access Innovations.

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New Alignment Between Access Innovations and MarkLogic

By |November 26th, 2010|Access Insights, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Alignment Between Access Innovations and MarkLogic

As reported by Beyond Search in their post, "Access Innovations Aligns with MarkLogic.”, some exciting things are happening at Access Innovations. A new set of enhancements of Data Harmony Suite specifically for MarkLogic servers has been released.

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Talend Managing Metadata Databases

By |November 26th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Talend Managing Metadata Databases

Talend, developer in open source data management software, today announced that the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) has selected Talend Integration Suite to improve the ease of integrating its metadata database systems.

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Beta Application Geared to the Scientific Community

By |November 26th, 2010|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Beta Application Geared to the Scientific Community

Elsevier has launched SciVerse Applications beta, a new module within the SciVerse platform that will empower the scientific community to develop and share customized solutions that advance the search and discovery process through its marketplace and developer network.

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Open Source Product Helps Maintain Data Integrity

By |November 25th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Open Source Product Helps Maintain Data Integrity

Esri Geoportal Server is a free, open source product that helps organizations manage and publish metadata for their geospatial resources. With Esri Geoportal Server, users can reduce time and redundancy of data production by connecting geospatial data and service producers with consumers.

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The Future of Bibliographic Data

By |November 25th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Future of Bibliographic Data

The surge in activity around open bibliographic metadata was noted and discussed on the blog, Information Environment Team. The British Library and the CERN library are two notable examples of libraries that have decided to release their bibliographic metadata under an open license. Equally as interesting is websites such as Open library and biblios.net engaging in the collection and reuse of open bibliographic metadata.

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Analyzing the Clouds

By |November 25th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Analyzing the Clouds

Research and Markets has added the "Analyzing Cloud Computing" report to their offering. This report addresses the trendy shift of web-based processing, known as cloud computing.

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