Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden
Taxonomy Consultant
Hedden Informaton Management
Author, The Accidental Taxonomist

Heather Hedden is a taxonomy consultant who has been working in the field of taxonomies and information management for 30 years, initially with the library database vendor Gale. In addition to working as an independent consultant, Heather has been employed in taxonomist roles at various companies, including Viziant, First Wind, Project Performance Corp., Cengage, Semantic Web Company, and Enterprise Knowledge. Currently, she is improving the taxonomies for a vendor of a market and competitive intelligence search platform, Northern Light. Heather has taught online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons University School of Library Science and continues to offer taxonomy training workshops through Hedden Information Management and other organizations. Heather recently served on the committee to revise the international thesaurus standard, ISO , and she is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd ed.

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp Online 2025

Wednesday 18 June 2025

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Facets and SharePoint - two key skills areas for every taxonomist

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2024

Wednesday 1 May 2024

2:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp BASICS

Wednesday 9 October 2024

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

More taxonomies in action

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2023

Wednesday 26 April 2023

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Session 1 - What are taxonomies and why are they useful?
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Session 2 - Taxonomy project basics
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Session 3 - 'Ask us Anything' Taxonomy Question Time

Wednesday 11 October 2023

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Taxonomies in SharePoint: challenges and opportunities