The Accidental Taxonomist

Topics related to information management taxonomies posted by the author of the book, The Accidental Taxonomist.

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Generative AI for Creating Multilingual Taxonomies

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Taxonomies enhance the capability to identify and retrieve desired content.    Automated translation (machine translation) expands the scope...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Generative AI and Taxonomies for Finding Information

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Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have provided numerous solutions in many applications. The original public applicatio...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Is a Taxonomy an Ontology?

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At last month’s Knowledge Graph Conference , in addition to knowledge graphs and graph databases, there is a growing interest in ontologies,...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Hierarchies and Attributes in Taxonomies

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One of the challenges in creating hierarchical taxonomies is that there can be multiple ways to categorize concepts and thus design hierarch...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026

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I was thrilled to participate in the Taxonomy Boot Camp London conference , which was in-person in London this past month for the first time...
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Heather Hedden
Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States
I am a professional information taxonomist and author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010, 2016, 2022). I design and develop taxonomies, ontologies, and metadata strategies for information management and retrieval. I also teach workshops in taxonomy creation.
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