The Accidental Taxonomist

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

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Semantic Data Conference 2025

This week I attended the second annual conference “ SemanticData: Taxonomy, Ontology, and Knowledge Graphs ,” hosted by Henry Stewart (HS) E...

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Narrower Terms vs. Alternative Terms

A number of years ago I worked on a project of cleaning up a large taxonomy on occupations and job titles. My client contact was sometimes c...

Sunday, August 10, 2025

When to Design a New Taxonomy for a New System

Often organizations determine that a suitable time to adopt a new taxonomy is in conjunction with adopting a new system for its implementati...

Saturday, June 28, 2025

A Multilingual Thesaurus Standard

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

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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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