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Open Archives

io.github.coret/openarchieven-mcp-server

MCP server for Open Archives: Dutch genealogical records and historical page transcriptions.

Uptime
100.0%
1 direct probes · 30d
Response
302ms
last probe
Tools
22
callable
Resources
1
readable
Prompts
0
available
Primary URL
https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/mcp

Tools · 22

search_records

Search genealogical records Searches the genealogical dataset and returns found persons and records. Supports filtering by archive, source type, event place, birth place, relation type and country. R…

show_record

Show a single genealogical record Returns one specific genealogical record in JSON format (UTF-8). The response conforms to the Archive 2 All (A2A) model. Also available as XML, GEDCOM, Turtle (TTL) …

match_record

Match a person to birth and death records Searches the genealogical dataset by exact name and birth year and returns the Open Archives URIs of birth records, death records and registrations in which …

get_births_years_ago

List births that occurred a specified number of years ago Returns a list of birth records for people born exactly the specified number of years ago from today. Note: version 1.1 uses `archive_code` i…

get_births

Finds birth records

get_deaths

Finds death records

get_marriages

Finds marriage records of couples (bride or groom)

get_archives

List all archives with statistics Returns an array of all participating archives including their archive code (used in other API calls), name, homepage URL, Twitter handle, ISIL code and search URL o…

get_record_stats

Record count statistics per archive Returns record count statistics. When no archive is specified, all archives are listed with their total number of records. When an archive code is specified, the s…

get_source_type_stats

Record count statistics per source type Returns statistics about source types. Without an archive_code all source types across the entire dataset are returned with total record counts. With an archiv…

get_event_type_stats

Record count statistics per event type Returns statistics about event types. Without an archive_code all event types across the entire dataset are returned with total counts. With an archive_code, on…

get_comment_stats

Comment count statistics Returns the total number of validated comments made on records. When no archive_code is provided, the global total is returned. When an archive code is provided, the count fo…

get_family_name_stats

Family name frequency statistics Returns the number of times family names appear in events for the selected source types, place and period. Results are ordered by frequency. Open Archives uses this e…

get_first_name_stats

First name frequency statistics for a given place and year Returns the top-X list of first names in the specified place and year. When a person has multiple forenames, only the first is counted. Curr…

get_profession_stats

Profession frequency statistics Returns the number of times professions appear in records for the selected period and place. Results are ordered by frequency. Open Archives uses this endpoint to powe…

get_breakdown

Cross-tabulation aggregation grouped by one dimension Returns record counts filtered by any combination of archive, source type, event type, event place and year range, grouped by ONE chosen dimensio…

get_historical_weather

Historical weather measurements for a date and location Returns historical weather measurements from the nearest Dutch weather station for the specified date and coordinates. Data sources are the Roy…

get_census_data

Dutch census data for a place and year Retrieves census data for a Dutch place or municipality for the census year nearest to the specified year. Available census years: 1795, 1830, 1840, 1849, 1859,…

search_transcriptions

Full-text search across page transcriptions Performs a full-text search across the page transcriptions of historical documents indexed by Open Archives. Mirrors the search UI at `/transcripties/zoek.…

browse_transcriptions

Browse transcriptions hierarchically Returns a hierarchical browse of available page transcriptions. Mirrors `/transcripties/lijst/`. Three modes, depending on the supplied filters: * No filter — top…

show_transcription

Retrieve a single transcription Returns the full transcript of a single page along with its source citation. Mirrors `/transcripties/toon/<id>`. AI-generated summaries are deliberately not returned b…

view_transcription

Open one or more transcribed document pages in an interactive deep-zoom viewer with the transcription text alongside. Pass page identifiers returned by search_transcriptions / browse_transcriptions (f…

Resources · 1

Open Archieven IIIF viewer

Deep-zoom IIIF viewer with transcription overlay.

ui://openarchieven/viewer.html

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open_archives": {
      "url": "https://mcp.openarchieven.nl/mcp",
      "transport": "http"
    }
  }
}