AMIRA — Africa Multiple Research Data

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claude mcp add --transport http amira-mcp-server https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amira-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "amira-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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URL: https://data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/mcp

Tools 38 found in our last check

• get_collection_overview

  Start here: corpus counts, text coverage, breakdowns, dates, snapshot freshness and refresh status.

• search_research_items

  Search digitised research items. Filters are AND-combined; empty results suggest a filter to relax or a stored place name. export links all matches as a file.

• get_research_item

  Research-item metadata, linked entities, rights, media files, IIIF manifest and a generated citation (BibTeX/RIS/CSL-JSON). Long fields cap at 25,000 characters.

• search_projects

  Search project names, descriptions and membership. Returns cited summaries and item counts; use get_project for detail.

• get_project

  Project description, team, sections, funders, item counts by type, top subjects and ten sample research items, with citation links.

• list_research_sections

  Cluster research sections, funding phases, project/item counts and citation links. Includes the external-collection grouping.

• get_research_section

  One research section's description, team and projects, each with its research-item count.

• search_persons

  Find canonical person authority records. Names accept either order and ignore accents. Use resolve_entity to disambiguate homonyms.

• get_person

  Person affiliations, identifiers, project and section roles, credited items, publications, podcasts, videos and collaborators. Lists cap at 50 with totals. Use id to disambiguate.

• list_institutions

  Browse institution authorities by name or acronym (e.g. 'UJKZ'), with project counts and citation links.

• get_institution

  Institution or group profile: identifiers, members, funded projects and credited items, with citation links.

• list_cluster_partners

  Cluster partner institutions grouped by catalogue category, with citation links.

• list_groups

  Browse research groups and associations by name, with citation links.

• list_subjects

  Subject headings (LCSH or free tags) ranked by distinct research-item count. Feed a heading into search_research_items.subject.

• list_locations

  Research places with coordinates and ancestor rollups. Two tiers: level "country" or "place" (city, region or site); one item counts under both. Feed a name into search_research_items.location.

• list_collections

  Research collections, one per project, ranked by research-item count and cited by the project page. Feed an id or code into search_research_items.collection.

• list_categories

  Ranked formats, languages or resource types used by research items. Feed values into the corresponding search filters.

• list_years

  Research-item year/decade histogram with dated and undated counts. A date range counts in each spanned bucket. Supports shared item filters and pagination.

• search_publications

  AND-filtered bibliography, newest first. Keyword includes PDF text and returns match snippets. citation_format returns citations per page; export links every match as one file. Cite amira_url.

• get_publication

  Publication metadata and citation export (BibTeX default). Full text is opt-in and paginated. Cite amira_url; DOI/repository links are additional sources.

• list_publication_facets

  Ranked facets for the entire filtered bibliography before pagination. Uses the same selection rules as search_publications.

• list_journals

  Publication venues ranked by linked bibliography records, with ISSN and catalogue links.

• find_related

  Subjects, people, places and projects connected through shared records. Per-corpus counts deduplicate each record; subject/person seeds also include publications. Returns ambiguity and cited samples.

• search_podcasts

  Search podcast metadata and transcripts. Text-only hits include snippets; full transcripts require get_podcast with opt-in.

• get_podcast

  Podcast detail, duration, audio file and citation link; says which model generated the transcript. Transcript is opt-in, bounded and pageable.

• search_videos

  Search video metadata and transcripts. Text-only hits include snippets; full transcripts require get_video with opt-in.

• get_video

  Video detail, thumbnail and citation link; says how the transcript was produced when recorded. Transcript is opt-in, bounded and pageable.

• resolve_entity

  Resolve a label or typed ID to cited candidates. Returns ambiguity instead of merging names. Use a returned id with get_entity_graph or get_* tools.

• get_entity_graph

  One-hop graph from a typed ID: explicit catalogue links and derived co-occurrence with distinct-record counts and cited evidence. types filters neighbours before the bounds. Pass edge_id to page its evidence; pin snapshot_id across pages.

• get_text_passages

  Find literal accent-insensitive keyword passages in selected publication/video/podcast IDs. Original UTF-16 offsets, bounded context, and citations. Requires full text exposure; no semantic ranking.

• compare_collections

  Compare 2–4 projects or collections (id or code from list_collections) with identical research-item filters. Reports denominators, missingness, dates and top types/languages.

• get_data_quality

  Snapshot coverage and missing metadata, unresolved loaded-authority links, semantic-neighbour coverage and sanitized refresh status. Missing catalogue metadata is not evidence of real-world absence.

• get_snapshot_changes

  Page added/updated/deleted records between retained snapshots from this Omeka instance. Lists available snapshot IDs when fewer than two exist. For recent additions without history, use added_since on the search tools.

• get_fulltext_map

  ILAM's journal African Music by its private full text, from public derived counts: AI-labelled content groups, countries named, word rates per year. Never returns text.

• get_similar_items

  Records whose catalogue descriptions read most alike (EmbeddingGemma 2 vectors), across research items, publications, videos, podcasts, projects and sections. Each says what else it shares (subjects, places, people, project) or wording_only.

• get_semantic_map

  The collection as unnamed groups of records close in meaning (k-means over EmbeddingGemma 2 vectors): size, type mix, top subjects, countries and projects, records nearest the centre. `group` lists one; `id` finds a record's group.

• search

  Ranked search across items, publications, videos, podcasts, projects and sections. Returns typed IDs, titles and citation URLs. Fetch selected records for evidence.

• fetch

  Read a typed search result as a cited document. Full text/transcripts are opt-in and pageable; metadata and text respect exposure policy. Unknown ID returns an error.

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