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How Taxonomies and Ontologies Drive Knowledge Management
Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am EDT
Lake Thoreau Track 4
Taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge management increasingly overlap as organizations seek better ways to organize, connect and apply enterprise knowledge. This educational session explains how knowledge organization systems support knowledge management, why they remain relevant in the age of AI and how they can help turn scattered information into usable business context. The session will define the roles of taxonomies and ontologies, showing how they relate, differ and extend one another. It will then connect those structures to the core components of knowledge management, including knowledge creation, capture, organization, retrieval, sharing, reuse and governance. Attendees will learn how taxonomies support the knowledge management lifecycle by improving consistency, findability, navigation and content organization. The session will also show how ontologies extend these benefits through richer relationships, enterprise knowledge graphs and semantic layers that can support analytics, discovery and AI-enabled applications. Participants will leave with a practical understanding of where taxonomies and ontologies fit within KM strategy, how they strengthen enterprise knowledge programs and how semantic foundations can improve both human and machine use of organizational knowledge.
Speakers
avatar for Heather Hedden

Heather Hedden

Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management
Heather Hedden is a taxonomy consultant who has been working in the field of taxonomies and information management for 30 years and more recently has also gotten into ontology design. In addition to working as an independent consultant, Heather has been employed in taxonomist roles... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am EDT
Lake Thoreau Track 4 Hyatt Regency Reston, VA

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