The Accidental Taxonomist

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

Monday, August 25, 2014

Independent Taxonomy Work

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Are you an aspiring taxonomist looking for work?   Because taxonomies tend to be project-based tasks, a lot of taxonomy work is freelance, ...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

A Professional Association for Taxonomists

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I recently attended the SLA annual conference , which this year was in Vancouver, BC, June 8 – 11. This year marked the 5 th annivers...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Creating Taxonomies from Scratch

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When I first got into taxonomy work, my impression was that the trend was increasingly to revise, redesign, merge, and update existing taxon...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Taxonomy Software Directories

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It's difficult to find a list of taxonomy management software that is both comprehensive and up to date, yet not overwhelmed with relate...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Indexing vs. Thesaurus Creation

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The activities of back-of-the-book indexing, document/digital asset indexing, and thesaurus/taxonomy creation all require similar skills, b...
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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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