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.