Published Articles by Heather Hedden
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“Governance of Metadata and Taxonomies,” Technology Transfer, October 2023.
“You’ve Got a Taxonomy. But Can You Find What You Are Looking For?,” Reworked, July 6, 2023.
“The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata: Making Sense of IFLA LRM, RDA, Linked Data and BIBFRAME” (Review)(pdf), The Indexer, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 26, 2023. (link to PDF)
“How Your Taxonomy Can Support Your Knowledge Management,” Reworked, March 21, 2023.
“Taxonomy Uses,” Technology Transfer, July 2022.
“Starting a Taxonomy,” Technology Transfer, July 2021.
“Taxonomies: Connecting Users to Content,” Boxes and Arrows, April 6, 2021.
“Metadata and Taxonomies,” Technology Transfer, March 2021.
“Tips for Taxonomy Creation,” ILI360, September 1, 2020.
“Taxonomy Design and Creation Best Practices,” Catalogue & Index (Journal of the Metadata and Discovery Group of CILIP), Issue 198, March 2020, pp. 8-10.
“Terms, Tags, and Classification,” LLRX, May 31, 2019
“Taxonomies in Support of Search,” Technology Transfer, March 2019
“Before You Implement a DAM – Consider Your Taxonomy!” Digital-Asset-Management.com, December 29, 2018.
“Taxonomies for Information Professionals.” (subscription access) Jinfo, December 19, 2018.
“Why Search Engines Do Not Preclude the Use of a Taxonomy.” LinkedIn Pulse, October 17, 2018.
“Taxonomies and Metadata for Digital Asset Management.” (pdf) Journal of Digital Media Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, Summer 2018. pp. 380-387.
“Multilingual Taxonomies.” MultiLingual, Vol. 29, No. 3, April 2018, pp. 51-55.
“Creating Indexes and Thesauri: Similarities and Differences.” (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2017, pp. 121-126.
“Build, Buy, or Contract Out a Taxonomy.” LinkedIn Pulse, July 29, 2017.
“Multiple Entry Points: Variants and Cross-References in Indexes and Thesauri.” (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2016, pp. 155-160.
“Marjorie M.K. Hlava. The Taxobook. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2015.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 2016.
“Manual Indexing – A Skill That Lives On,” LinkedIn Pulse, March 5, 2015.
“Opportunities in Freelance Taxonomy Work” (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 22, No. 12, December 2014.
“ISO 25964-2 Information and documentation – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies — Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies” (Review) (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 31, No. 3, September 2013.
“June Abbas. Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas. Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 20, No. 4, October – December, 2012.
“Taxonomy Management: Needs and Considerations,” FreePint, since merged into Jinfo, September 13, 2012.
“ISO 25964-1: 2011 Information and documentation — Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval” (Review) (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2012.
“Back of the Book Indexing and Thesaurus Creation: A Comparison.” (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 20, No. 2, April – June, 2012.
“Irene Wormell, Annie Joan Olesen, and Gabor Mikulas, Information Consulting: Guide to Good Practice. Chandos Publishing 2011.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 20, No. 2, April – June, 2012.
“Taxonomies and the Information User,” Information Outlook, Vol. 14, No. 8, December 2010.
“Patricia Harpring, Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works, Getty Research Institute 2010.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 18, No. 4, October-December, 2010.
“Software for Taxonomy Creation and Management,” FUMSI (Find, Use, Manage and Share Information), since merged into Jinfo, November 2010.
“Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies: Best Practices for Metadata,” Journal of Digital Asset Management, Vol. 6, No. 5, October 2010, pp. 279-284.
“8 Things You Need to Know About How Taxonomy Can Improve Search,” White Paper for Earley & Associations, May 2010.
“How to Turn on Online Course into a Book,” ELearn Magazine., April 1, 2010.
“Darin L. Stewart. Building Enterprise Taxonomies. Mokita Press, 2008.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 17, No. 2, April-June, 2009.
“Muriel Foulonneau and Jenn Riley. 2008 Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability.” (Book Review) (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 17, No. 1, January-March, 2009.
“Alice Redmond-Neal and Marjorie H.K. Hlava. 2005. ASIS&T Thesaurus of Information Science, Technology, and Librarianship, Third edition.” (Book Review)” (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 16, No. 4, October-December 2008.
“Conference Review: Society for Scholarly Publishing.” (pdf) Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Vol. 16, No. 4, October-December 2008.
“How Semantic Tagging Increases Findability.” (pdf) EContent, October 2008
“Comparative Evaluation of Thesaurus Creation Software.” (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2008.
“SSP Conference Weighs Innovation Against History,” EContent (Web site), June 6, 2008.
“Making Decisions in Taxonomy Creation.” (pdf) Intranets: Enterprise Strategies and Solutions, Vol. 11, No. 3, May/June 2008.
“Taxonomy Tool Roundup.” (pdf) EContent, Vol. 31, No. 3, April 2008, pp. 40-44.
“Controlled Vocabularies, Thesauri, and Taxonomies.” (pdf) The Indexer, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 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.
“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.
“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, July 2006.
“Software for HTML Indexing: A Comparative Review” (pdf), The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2006, pp. 32-37.
“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.
“Standardizing Cyrillic Software” (pdf), Multilingual Computing, Vol. 5, No. 1, January/February 1994, pp. 25-27.
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