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.

Open Semantic Framework Debuts in Citizen Dan

By |August 12th, 2010|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Open Semantic Framework Debuts in Citizen Dan

Citizen Dan is an open source system for local governments and organizations to publish and visualize community data and content.

Beijing Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources

By |August 11th, 2010|News, ontology, reference|Comments Off on Beijing Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources

OntoLex workshop, scheduled for August 21-22, 2010 in Beijing, is designed to address lexicographers, researchers, ontologists and practitioners.

Is The World Headed Towards More Digitization?

By |August 11th, 2010|News, storage, Technology|Comments Off on Is The World Headed Towards More Digitization?

As more and more information heads out in the World Wide Web, the problem of how to safely store it and where to put it all comes to mind.

Twitter Has Become a Powerful File Sharing Tool

By |August 11th, 2010|indexing, News, Technology|Comments Off on Twitter Has Become a Powerful File Sharing Tool

Torrent Tweet organizes discussions surrounding individual topics, making it a major indexing player.

Data Management and Storage Via an Index Engine

By |August 10th, 2010|indexing, News, search, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Data Management and Storage Via an Index Engine

In a business of any type, the daily information coming and going is more than one realizes. Even if safely stored, if it cannot be easily recovered for review, then the business is highly at risk.

Standards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?

By |August 9th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Standards: Straightjacket or Straight Edge?

Standards were not popular with would-be railroad tycoons in the 1880s. A standard set of railroad tracks eliminated some profitable loading and unloading work. Incompatible tracks kept the other guys’ rolling stock on another guy’s tracks. Eventually standards emerged because a couple of tycoons figured out how to make even more money by standardizing. Many industries go through this wide open approach only to find that over time certain methods or designs become part of the furniture of living.

Adding On To A Lotus Note – Good Or Bad Idea?

By |August 9th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Adding On To A Lotus Note – Good Or Bad Idea?

Google, frustration, and indexing all make for an interesting article.