Custom Taxonomy Creation

​Taxonomies help connect users to content and improve findability over keyword searches alone. As such, taxonomies should be created so that they are customized to the content and to the users. How to go about this will be addressed in this presentation. Content analysis and term extraction are methods to make a taxonomy match its content, and user interviews and brainstorming sessions are methods to make a taxonomy suit its users.

​About the Speaker

​Heather Hedden has been a taxonomist for over 26 years in various organizations and as an independent consultant. She works for Semantic Web Company (vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software), doing a combination of training, consulting, marketing support, and working on the internal knowledge hub taxonomy. Heather previously worked as a taxonomist at Cengage Learning, Viziant, First Wind, and Project Performance Corp. She has given workshops on taxonomy creation at numerous conferences and as corporate training. She also teaches an online course in taxonomy creation. Heather is the author of The Accidental Taxonomist, 3rd ed.

​LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hedden/

Please join our World IA Café for a wonderful session on creating custom taxonomies with Heather Hedden.

The World IA Café is a speaker series hosted by the World Information Architecture Association (WIAA), supported by the Rutgers Master of Business and Science (MBS) Program.

**The event will be recorded. The recording will be shared with registered participants.**