Author: Heather Hedden

Heather has been a taxonomist since 1995, when she transitioned from being an indexer to editing controlled vocabularies at the library database vendor Information Access Company, which later merged into Gale. She has since had a series of taxonomist roles, including with an enterprise search software vendor, a wind energy company, a knowledge management consulting company, a textbook publisher, and most recently with taxonomy/ontology management software vendor, Semantic Web Company, developer of PoolParty. In between employed positions, Heather has done independent taxonomy consulting through Hedden Information Management, and in her early freelance years she also indexed books. For 10 years, Heather taught a continuing education workshop through the School of Library and Information Science of Simmons University, the content of which formed the basis of her book, The Accidental Taxonomist (2010, 2016). Heather continues to teach taxonomy workshops online and through conferences, and she blogs as the The Accidental Taxonomist. Blog: http://accidental-taxonomist.blogspot.com/