MCP server for DAO-centred research: Zenon DAI, IAA Publications, ADAJ, plus a curated cross-platform paper-search surface (Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, CORE, Zenodo, bioRxiv) — every hit pre-renders an inline_citation block for verbatim agent copy.
Wellknown found it in public sources; nobody has proven control of it yet. Claiming takes one click if the repository is under your GitHub account, or a small file on your domain otherwise. Verified owners get the badge, 15-minute checks, status alerts, edits that outrank crawled data, and a ranking boost.
Agents can do it too: POST https://wellknown.network/api/v1/claims with {"agent":"dao-paper-search-mcp","method":"well_known_file"} — machine-readable steps at claim.json, guide at /docs/claim.
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# dao-paper-search-mcp [](https://github.com/leiverkus/dao-paper-search-mcp/actions/workflows/tests.yml) [](https://pypi.org/project/dao-paper-search-mcp/) [](https://pypi.org/project/dao-paper-search-mcp/) [](LICENSE) DAO-centred MCP server for academic research — Levant archaeology, biblical archaeology, Bronze/Iron Age, plus a curated cross-platform paper-search surface for the wider humanities. Started as a vertical complement to [`paper-search-mcp`](https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp); now also reimplements the cross-platform adapters that matter for DAO/DH workflows (Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, CORE, Zenodo) so every hit carries the same pre-rendered `inline_citation` block. The DAO-specific sources (Zenon DAI, IAA Publications, ADAJ) are the original raison d'être and remain the strongest reason to use this server for Levantine archaeology. The horizontal adapters reduce the need to run `paper-search-mcp` alongside. ## Sources ### DAO-specific (Tier 1, original scope) | Tool | Source | Status | |---|---|---| | `search_zenon` | Zenon DAI (~1M records, multilingual DE/EN/FR/IT/HE/AR) | implemented | | `search_iaa` | IAA Publications (ʿAtiqot, HA-ESI, IAA Book Series, Favissa, …) | implemented (OAI-PMH backend since v0.5.0) | | `search_adaj` | DoA Publication Archive (ADAJ, SHAJ, Munjazat, JERD, Athar) | implemented | | `resolve_author` | Wikidata SPARQL + local override list + GND fallback | implemented | | `resolve_site` | iDAI.gazetteer (DAI's authoritative place register) | implemented | ### Cross-platform (selective `paper-search-mcp` substitution) | Tool | Source | Status | |---|-…
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