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.

Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

By |November 24th, 2010|Business Intelligence, indexing, News, Standards, storage|Comments Off on Integration Allows New Speech Analytics

Nexidia has integrated Nexidia Capture and Nexidia Scan into Cisco's new media capture platform. Cisco's media capture platform is an open-standards, network-based solution that provides recording, playback, live streaming, and storage of media, including audio and video, with rich metadata to facilitate easy use. This integration allows Cisco customers the ability to create real-time speech alerting applications and the power to perform speech analytics with archived audio.

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Digital Asset Management as Curriculum

By |November 24th, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Digital Asset Management as Curriculum

Matthew Gonnering, CEO of Widen Enterprises, recently spoke to Digital Asset Management (DAM) students at the Columbia University School of Continuing Education about the definitions, growth, advantages and challenges of implementing DAM SaaS solutions in a variety of businesses and organizations.

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Cloud vs. Cloud

By |November 24th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Cloud vs. Cloud

There seems to be cloud computing associations appearing on a daily basis. The two most recent are the Open Data Center Alliance and the Asian Cloud Computing Association. One columnist looks at what they have in common and most importantly, what they don’t.

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Expanding Cloud Computing Strategy

By |November 23rd, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Expanding Cloud Computing Strategy

IBM is leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop a smart cloud storage architecture, which will improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across boundaries of countries and vendors. Tackling the major challenges facing today's storage clouds, the consortium partners include standards bodies, media companies, telecommunications companies, healthcare companies, academic institutions and more.

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Get Your Ducks in a Row

By |November 23rd, 2010|News, search|Comments Off on Get Your Ducks in a Row

Duckduckgo.com is not just another search engine that displays results from other sites, such as Google´s, Bing´s etc. Instead, it concentrates its effort in ranking those results in a different, user friendly and plural way.

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New Senior Ontology Consultant Added to Semantic Arts

By |November 23rd, 2010|News, ontology, Uncategorized|Comments Off on New Senior Ontology Consultant Added to Semantic Arts

Dr. Michael F. Uschold of Seattle, Washington joined Semantic Arts as a Senior Ontology Consultant recently. As an internationally recognized expert with over two decades experience in developing and transitioning semantic technology from academia to industry, he should be a nice addition to their staff.

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Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

By |November 22nd, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on Open Collaboration Forum Formed in the Asia Pacific Region

Recently, several very well known organizations announced that they had formed Asia Cloud Computing Association (Asia Cloud), an open collaboration forum based in the Asia Pacific region.

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The Future of Collaboration and Transparency

By |November 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on The Future of Collaboration and Transparency

Unstructured information continues to grow and this provides a unique opportunity for government to reach beyond the traditional relational databases. Last week, government employees and industry experts met at the MarkLogic Government Summit to discuss best practices and the importance of implementing technology solutions capable of leveraging unstructured information.

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Master Data Management and Taxonomies

By |November 22nd, 2010|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Master Data Management and Taxonomies

November 22, 2010 – At the recent Data Content conference in Philadelphia, put on by InfoCommerce Group, Managing Director Scott Taylor gave a presentation on the […]

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Discovery Technology Debate

By |November 19th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on Discovery Technology Debate

Last week’s Charleston Conference set the scene for a discovery-product debate. Competitors EBSCO Publishing and Serials Solutions faced off over their discovery products—EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Summon.

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