
Heather Hedden on Taxonomies
The Informed Life
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The Accidental Taxonomist
You're the author of a book called The Accidental Taxonomist. How did you come to taxonomy work? I was hired as an abstractor slash indexer because I knew how to write the abstracts and then they trained me on indexing with their control vocabulary. And then I moved into the group that managed the control of vocabularies. We didn't call them taxonomies, but they fit into that.
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