Heather Hedden is a taxonomist and author of the book The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010, 2016). For over 20 years, she has designed and developed taxonomies and metadata strategies for web and internal content management both as an independent consultant and as an employee in different organizations. Heather works as a senior vocabulary editor at Gale, A Cengage Company and does taxonomy consulting through Hedden Information Management (whose WordPress site she created). She also teaches an online course and gives full-day workshop in taxonomy design and development.