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.

Making Australian Government Information Findable

By |November 16th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Making Australian Government Information Findable

The final version of data.australia.gov dataset repository is soon to be released and the result could be streamlined information. The new repository will replace the beta version first released by the Gov 2.0 Taskforce in September 2009 to centrally host datasets from federal, state and territory governments where applicable.

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Book Publishing – What About the Standards?

By |November 15th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Book Publishing – What About the Standards?

The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?

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Dell’s Latest Acquisition Will Help Manage the Clouds

By |November 15th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Dell’s Latest Acquisition Will Help Manage the Clouds

Dell has agreed to purchase Boomi and says this acquisition will help it address what it terms “one of the top barriers to cloud adoption” – managing and integrating cloud-based applications with existing applications and databases.

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Celebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core

By |November 15th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Standards, Taxonomy|1 Comment

In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T's recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as "an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices."

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Libraries Become More Valuable

By |November 12th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Libraries Become More Valuable

A new agreement between OCLC and EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) will create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. Among other benefits that this partnership brings, libraries will be able to use EBSCO Discovery Service to facilitate interlibrary loan (ILL) via OCLC.

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Contract Management Software Depends on Metadata Library

By |November 12th, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Contract Management Software Depends on Metadata Library

Dolphin Software has launched the latest version of its contract management software, Dolphin Contract Manager 2.0 for Microsoft SharePoint. This new version enables legacy contracts to be captured and integrated into the current contract management system and also makes contract management more ‘plug and play’ for large organizations.

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BigTent Acquired by Federated Media

By |November 12th, 2010|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on BigTent Acquired by Federated Media

Federated Media Publishing has acquired BigTent, the leading platform for trusted parenting groups. Millions rely on BigTent to stay connected with local school, community and shared-interest groups.

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SlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box

By |November 11th, 2010|News, ontology|Comments Off on SlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box

Intentionally avoiding the use of a keyword ontology, SlipBox is based on traditional slip boxes and manages the notes in a similar manner as the human memory.When taking notes, SlipBox actively discourages the use of categories like they are required by most note-taking applications and just focuses on tags.

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Google of Audio Digitizing

By |November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, storage|Comments Off on Google of Audio Digitizing

One-half million audio recordings have been digitized by Memnon Archiving Systems relying on NOA systems. NOA systems support multiple Memnon projects, including migration of 250,000 digital audio tapes for Danish Radio and 350,000 CDs for BnF.

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Patent Awarded to Guid

By |November 11th, 2010|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Patent Awarded to Guid

The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.

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