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.

Patents Awarded to New Jersey Institute of Technology Researchers for Ontologies

By |August 26th, 2010|News, ontology|Comments Off on Patents Awarded to New Jersey Institute of Technology Researchers for Ontologies

Patent awarded for "Intersection Ontologies for Organizing Data," a method for organizing sets of data into forms that are more easily usable.

Social Reprieve

By |August 25th, 2010|indexing, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Social Reprieve

In this day and age of social media infiltrating every area of our lives, for good or bad, there is one area that has resisted this trend – books. Perhaps the last refuge from social media, many go to find shelter from the friending and tweeting in their comforting pages and worn binding. Unfortunately, this once solitary refuge is looking to join the social realm as companies like Copia and BookGlutton look to jump on board.

Automatic Tagging – How Intuitive Is It?

By |August 24th, 2010|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Automatic Tagging – How Intuitive Is It?

Open Text Content Analytics engine that intelligently extracts meaning, sentiment and context from content.

Stanford’s Engineering Library Follows New Trend in Libraries – No Books

By |August 24th, 2010|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Stanford’s Engineering Library Follows New Trend in Libraries – No Books

What is a library without books? Paper books, that is. Some call it progress, others are in dismay, but Stanford University’s Engineering Library has gone digital.

New Patents Awarded For Index Engines

By |August 24th, 2010|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Patents Awarded For Index Engines

August 24, 2010 – Index Engines was recently awarded patents in the United States and also Europe.

According to Digital Producer’s article, “Index Engines Data […]

How To Structure The Unstructured

By |August 23rd, 2010|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on How To Structure The Unstructured

One result of the Internet's rapid growth has been a huge increase in the amount of information generated and shared by organizations in almost every industry and sector. A side effect of that is the huge amount of unstructured data produced and unmanaged.

Calculating the ROI of Semantic Enrichment

We are often asked for help in calculating the potential return on investment (ROI) of investing in a taxonomy. How this calculation is done depends on the type of organization and who will be the users of the taxonomy. For any content-intensive organization, using a taxonomy increases findability, which in turn leads to greater utility and value for the organization’s content assets. Within the enterprise, this translates into hours and dollars saved by reducing the time required to find things, as well as the time and expense of redoing research or other work that can’t be found.