Helen Lippell

Helen Lippell
Taxonomy and Search Consultant
Helen Lippell Business Services

Helen is a taxonomy and semantic modelling consultant, who has been helping clients for over a decade. Her skills include taxonomy development, ontology modelling, tagging initiatives, knowledge graphs, metadata training and content modelling.

Helen's clients have included the BBC, the UK government, Financial Times, Time Out, RIBA, the Metropolitan Police of London, Pearson and Electronic Arts.

She writes and speaks regularly and is the programme chair of Taxonomy Boot Camp London, the sister event to Taxonomy Boot Camp in the US.

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 20 March 2024

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

Taxonomies in action

Wednesday 19 June 2024

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

More taxonomies in action

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 22 March 2023

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

Taxonomies in action

Wednesday 21 June 2023

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

Taxonomies in action

Wednesday 11 October 2023

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

Taxonomies in action

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

Wednesday 23 March 2022

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

Structuring a multi-faceted taxonomy

Wednesday 8 June 2022

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

Taxonomies in action

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2021

Wednesday 10 November 2021

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

An incremental approach to knowledge graph building using taxonomies, ontologies & APIs

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London June 2021

Wednesday 9 June 2021

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

Everything that will go wrong with your search, metadata or taxonomy project

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London March 2021

Tuesday 2 March 2021

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

What's Up Doc? Using a taxonomy to turn health news into cartoons

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2020

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Taxonomies & Ontologies: where are we now and where are we heading?

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2019

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Keynote 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

KEYNOTE - “That word you keep using? I don’t think you know what it means.”

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2018

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Keynote 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

KEYNOTE - This is the Bad Place: 13 rules for designing better information environments

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Keynote 9:30 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.

KEYNOTE - Selling the benefits of taxonomy: numbers and stories

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2017

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Developing your career as a taxonomist

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2016

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Making taxonomies visible and useful in the business