Heather Hedden is an information taxonomist with Viziant Corporation in Boston and a freelance book and Web site indexer through Hedden Information Management, www.hedden-information.com. Previously she worked for six years as a controlled vocabulary editor with Gale (formerly Information Access Company).

Heather teaches online workshops in Web site indexing through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and has given live workshops on Web site indexing internationally at conferences of the American Society of Indexers (ASI), Indexing Society of Canada, British Society of Indexers, and the Netherlands Indexing Network. In 2007 she published the book Indexing Specialties: Web Sites through ASI and Information Today Inc. She has also published numerous articles on the subject. Heather was past manager of the ASI Web Indexing Special Interest Group and started its current Yahoo discussion group.