Courses/Workshops
Taxonomies
Indexing
Web Site Indexing
Web Site Design
Translations
About Heather
Hedden Information Management
About Heather Hedden
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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. In Janaury 2007 she began working 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 published numerous articles on web site indexing and taxonomies and has recently written a book, Indexing Specialties: Web Sites, for 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.
Contact Heather Hedden
Heather Hedden
98 East Riding Drive
Carlisle, MA 01741-1602
U.S.A.
Tel. 978-467-5195 (cell)
Tel. 978-371-0822 (home)
Fax. 978-371-2126 (call first)
Professional Affiliations
| DNI | German
Network of Indexers/ Deutsches Netzwerk der Indexer |