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About Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden, principal of Hedden Information Management, is an information taxonomist and indexer. She had over eight years’ experience in controlled vocabulary management and thesaurus development at the Gale Group before starting her own business. Previously she worked as a periodical database indexer with Gale’s predecessor, Information Access Company. As senior vocabulary editor at Gale, she also developed taxonomies for web search interfaces. From January 2007 through July 2008 she worked as an information taxonomist for Viziant Corporation.

Heather teaches online courses in taxonomies and in web site indexing, both independently and through the Continuing Education Program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She has given numerous presentations and published many articles on taxonomies, indexing, and other information management topics and has recently written a book, Indexing Specialties: Web Sites, published jointly by the American Society for Indexing and Information Today, Inc. Heather also has a background in writing and editing, including reference book essays, abstracts, technical documentation, and magazine and newspaper articles. More recently she developed skills in web site design, both in writing HTML and CSS code and using HTML editors, such as Dreamweaver.

Heather served as vice president and then president of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Indexing in 2005 and 2006 respectively. In January 2005 she restarted the previously inactive Web Indexing Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing and served as its manager for two years. Currently she is the SIG's treasurer. In 2007 she founded the Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group, which she currently heads.

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Heather Hedden 98 East Riding Drive Carlisle, MA 01741-1602 U.S.A.

Tel. 978-371-0822 (home office) Tel. 978-467-5195 (cell) Fax. 978-371-2126 (call first)

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