Cocoda supports MeSH, LCSH, LCNAF, and more

Release 1.4.7 of the mapping tool Cocoda adds support of several English vocabularies, in particular:

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)

Both are integrated via the official vocabulary API of MeSH (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/) and LoC (https://id.loc.gov) respectively. Access may be delayed a bit for large sets of concepts but the data is always up-to-date.

Cocoda started with focus on German library classification systems. Now more and more English vocabularies are supported as well. Further examples include:

• Thema subject classification scheme of books
• EuroVoc
• Iconclass
• Mathematics Subject Classification
• STW Thesaurus for Economics
• Systematics of the subjects and colleges of the German Research Association
• Hornbostel-Sachs-System
• Nomisma
• Wikidata

With Cocoda all vocabularies can be browsed and searched in a unified interface to create and evaluate mappings between them. The tool can be used freely and it is available as Open Source. Existing mappings between the new vocabularies will be added to our mapping database in the comming weeks.