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.

REViSITE ICT4EE Revving Up For Industry

By |October 5th, 2010|News, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on REViSITE ICT4EE Revving Up For Industry

Revisite, a catchy acronym for Roadmap Enabling Vision and Strategy for ICT-enabled Energy Efficiency, is a new project that will tie together four industrial disciplines. Manufacturing, construction, lighting, and grids in a cross sectored research community in Europe. Each sector is represented by various initiatives including the European Technology Platforms or ETPs. Included in this group are Artemis, ECTP, Manufacture, Photonics21, and Smartgrids. All of this is brought under the umbrella of ICT for Energy Efficiency or ICT4EE.

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Surprise – Revenue Generation A Top Priority Among Marketers

By |October 4th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Surprise – Revenue Generation A Top Priority Among Marketers

Surprise, surprise. The number one priority for marketers world wide is revenue generation. Traffic equals customers, and it's those customers who do the all important conversion and buy something.

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Verndale Pulls Down Two WebAwards

By |October 4th, 2010|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Verndale Pulls Down Two WebAwards

Recognized for Outstanding Achievement in web development for their work on the new Commonwealth Magazine and Money Management International websites, Verndale was honored with two WebAwards by the WebMarketing Association. This is no small feat considering the nominees and the criteria which is quite lengthy.

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Clashing the Old With the New

By |October 1st, 2010|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Clashing the Old With the New

Yearning for the Dewey Decimal System to guide him through the Internet, this blogger shares his unique and humorous perspective about the information superhighway. Believing that the more precisely we can describe things, the more precisely people will be able to find what they need.

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Ontology Systems Chosen by MBNL

By |October 1st, 2010|News, ontology|Comments Off on Ontology Systems Chosen by MBNL

MBNL (Mobile Broadband Network Limited) has selected Ontology Systems’ OSS/CAD to bring together data across NMS and OSS systems from both MBNL’s parent operators to enable the audit of Iub configuration data quality and alignment and the Iub configuration against standard configuration specifications for the shared RAN infrastructure.

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Department of Defense Contracts Go To FGM

By |October 1st, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Department of Defense Contracts Go To FGM

FGM receives contracts from the Department of Defense (DoD) to design, develop, and maintain the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Service Discovery, Metadata Services, and Enterprise Service Management capabilities.

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The Relevance of Taxonomies

By |September 30th, 2010|News, ontology, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Relevance of Taxonomies

In this world of real time search and respond, one has to wonder if the traditional library information sources’ reliance on controlled vocabularies remains a viable, worthwhile, and cost-effective strategy. What about enterprise search? How important are they in this world of keyword search?

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Defining and Contrasting Cloud vs. Host

By |September 30th, 2010|News, semantic, storage|1 Comment

Cloud computing, though relatively new, is becoming common on the tongues of most technological gurus. But what is “cloud” computing, and how does it differ from “hosted?” The blog Enterprise Irregulars attempts to explain this sometimes nebulous topic (pun totally intended).

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ATG Commerce 10 Released

By |September 30th, 2010|Autoindexing, indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on ATG Commerce 10 Released

ATG releases ATG Commerce 10 designed to help merchants speed commerce implementations, improve merchandising, rapidly launch multiple sites, and easily expand into new markets. These capabilities are designed to increase the value of merchandise, and the profitability of overall commerce initiatives.

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Research and Development Project Might Be Changing the Future

By |September 29th, 2010|metadata, News, Technology|1 Comment

LOD2 (Linked Open Data) is an EU co-funded project comprised of leading Linked Open Data technology researchers, companies, and service providers from across seven European countries. This 4-year collaborative research and development project is tasked with developing additional technology infrastructure and services that address new frontier challenges across government and industry.

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