Courses/Workshops
Taxonomies
Indexing
Web Site Indexing
Information Architecture
Translations
Hedden Information Management
Articles
A selection of published articles written by Heather Hedden
"How Semantic Tagging Increases Findability," EContent Magazine, October 2008. (forthcoming)
"Comparative Evaluation of Thesaurus Creation Software,"The Indexer, Vol. 26, No. 21, June 2008.
"SSP Conference Weighs Innovation Against History," EContent (Web site), June 6, 2008.
"Making Decisions in Taxonomy Creation," Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions, Vol. 11, No. 3, May/June 2008.
"Taxonomy Tool Roundup" (pdf), EContent Magazine, April 2008.
"Controlled Vocabularies, Thesauri, and Taxonomies" (pdf,) The Indexer, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2008.
"Better Living Through Taxonomies," Digital Web Magazine, February 5, 2008.
"Conference Report: Taxonomy Boot Camp" (pdf), Key Words, the Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 16, No. 1, January-March 2008, pp. 32-34.
"Taxonomies, CMS, and Search," CM Pros Newsletter, January 2008.
"Book-style Indexes for Websites" (pdf), Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, Vol. 58, No. 8, November-December 2007, pp. 433-436.
"Patrick Lambe, Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge, and Organisational Effectiveness" (Book Review)(pdf), Key Words, the Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 15, No. 4, October-December 2007, pp. 130-132.
“Indexing Arabic Names” (pdf), The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 3, April 2007, pp. C9-C15.
"Indexing & Taxonomies: Finding the Best Way to Organize Online Content," co-authored with Geoffrey Bock and Seth Earley, Earley & Associates Reports, January 2007.
“Creating an Index for Your Web Site to Make Info Easier to See,” Computers in Libraries, Vol. 26, No. 9, October, 2006.
“Creating an Independent Online Course for a Niche Skill,” eLearn Magazine, June 30, 2006.
“Software for HTML Indexing: A Comparative Review” (pdf), The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2006, pp. 32-37.
“Implementing Web Site A-Z Indexes” (pdf, external link), Broadside, the newsletter of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, January 2006.
“HTML Editing Freeware: XRefHT32” (pdf), Key Words, the Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 13, No. 4, October-December 2005, pp.141-142.
“Enhanced Site Searching with an A-Z Index” (pdf), the Informer, the newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, Edition 15, Summer 2005.
“Cronin, Blaise, Editor, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Volume 39” (Book Review) (pdf), Key Words, the Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 13, No. 3, July-September 2005, pp. 105-106.
“Intranet Indexing: Finding Content from A to Z” (pdf), Intranets, Vol. 8, No. 2, March/April 2005.
“A-Z Indexes to Enhance Site Searching,” Digital Web Magazine, January 5, 2005.
“A-Z Web Site Indexes Explained,” Sitepoint.com, December 6, 2004.
“NAICS Codes: A New Industry Classification System,” InSite Pro Industry Insights, September 1997.
“Standardizing Cyrillic Software,” Multilingual Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, January/February 1994, pp. 25-27.