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Home / People / Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden

Current role: Speaker
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Twitter: @hhedden
Website: http://accidental-taxonomist.blogspot.com/

Heather Hedden has been a taxonomist for over 26 years in various organizations and as an independent consultant. She currently works for professional services team of Semantic Web Company (vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software) and previously worked as a taxonomist at Cengage Learning, Viziant, First Wind, and Project Performance Corp. Heather has designed and developed, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and metadata schema for internal and externally published content, including websites, intranets, and content management systems. She has given workshops on taxonomy creation at numerous conferences and as corporate training. Through Hedden Information Management she also teaches an online course in taxonomy creation. Heather is author of The Accidental Taxonomist, 2nd ed.

Conference presentations

  • Connecting Users to Content: An Introduction to Taxonomy Design & Creation (2021)
  • Revisiting Taxonomies: Topics in Taxonomy Design (2022)
  • Revisiting, Reviewing, and Revising Taxonomies (2022)

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