Heather Hedden

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

Heather Hedden is an independent taxonomy consultant who has been working in the field of taxonomies and information management for over 29 years. She provides taxonomy design and development services and taxonomy training through Hedden Information Management. Heather has previously done taxonomy consulting through Enterprise Knowledge, Semantic Web Company, and PPC, and has also been a senior vocabulary editor at Cengage/Gale. She gives workshops on taxonomy creation through different organizations, at conferences, and as corporate training. Heather is author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd edition.

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

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2022

Wednesday 12 October 2022

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

Practical tips for setting up taxonomy governance

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2021

Wednesday 10 November 2021

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

User-centred taxonomies for kick ass search results

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2019

Monday 14 October

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Taxonomy and metadata design - getting to grips with the basics

Tuesday 15 October 2019

11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Managing taxonomies for success

Wednesday 16 October 2019

2:50 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.

Taxonomy interoperability, linked data and VocBench

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2018

Monday 15 October 2018

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Taxonomy Fundamentals

Wednesday 17 October 2018

4:05 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Taxonomy standards and architecture

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

State-of-the-art taxonomies for information retrieval

Tuesday 16 October 2018

2:15 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.

Taxonomies and SharePoint

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2017

Monday, 16 October 2017

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Taxonomy fundamentals (full day)

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Doing taxonomy right: advice from two experts

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2016

Monday, 17 October 2016

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Workshop: Taxonomy Fundamentals

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

The nuts and bolts of taxonomies