The Accidental Taxonomist

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

Saturday, June 28, 2025

A Multilingual Thesaurus Standard

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Standards for taxonomies are of two kinds: 1) data models for interoperability and machine-readability, namely SKOS (Simple Knowledge Orga...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Taxonomies and Attribute Data

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In the past (such as my 2021 blog post " Attributes in Taxonomies "), I have explained that “attributes” serve as filters to refin...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Customizing Taxonomy Hierarchies

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Taxonomies need to be custom-created for their purposes to be most effective. Basically, a taxonomy comprises the concepts or terms that ref...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Getting Work as a Taxonomist

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Occasionally, people whom I don't know ask me for career advice in the field of taxonomies, but this is not easy to answer. For taxonomy...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Talking about Taxonomies in India

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I was thrilled to bring together my passions of my taxonomy profession, connecting with people, and international travel on my visit to Indi...
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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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