Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

Name: Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)
Author: fmadore

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Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets.

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when	check	result	http	latency	detail
5 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	123 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
12 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	31 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
18 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	26 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
25 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	30 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
32 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	28 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	28 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	28 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	32 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	28 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools
3 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	27 ms	server iwac-mcp-server 3.9.0 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 35 tools

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search — Search the Islam West Africa Collection across newspaper articles, Islamic publications, archival documents, academic references, audiovisual recordings, photog
fetch — Retrieve the full text and metadata of one IWAC item by an id returned from `search` (format '<category>:<number>', e.g. 'articles:28576'). Returns {id, title,
explore_corpus — Selection workbench: items, concordance, coverage, compare (requires comparison), attention, aliases, or paginated manifest/CSL-JSON/BibTeX exports. Exact filte
search_articles — Search IWAC newspaper articles by keyword (title + OCR + AI abstracts, French and English), country, newspaper, subject, and date range. Use French concept keyw
get_article — Get one article (by id): full metadata, the AI abstract (description_ai), AI sentiment, and OCR text, in 25k-char parts (follow `next_offset`). Pass a `keyword`
search_by_sentiment — Filter articles by gpt-5-6-luna sentiment labels (accent/case-insensitive exact match). One model's reading, not a consensus — 4 other models scored the same ar
get_sentiment_distribution — Aggregate AI labels over a shared selection. model:"all" compares independent annotators and their coverage; model:"consensus" reads the stored panel majority.
search_index — Search the IWAC authority index (persons, places, organisations, events, subjects) by name. Accent/case-insensitive.
get_index_entry — Get full details of an index entry by id (raw dataset columns, French names — Titre, Prénom, Coordonnées…).
list_subjects — List sujets from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first).
list_locations — List lieux from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first). The optional 'country' filter selects entries that APPEAR IN records from that coun
list_persons — List personnes from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first). The optional 'country' filter selects entries that APPEAR IN records from that
get_collection_stats — Overall statistics for every IWAC subset, including `fulltext_coverage` — how many items in each subset actually carry searchable full text in this dataset. Rea
get_newspaper_stats — Per-newspaper article counts and date ranges.
get_country_comparison — Compare article counts, newspaper counts, date ranges, and gpt-5-6-luna polarity across countries.
get_temporal_distribution — Counts by Gregorian or Hijri year/month, or pooled lunar month. Group by country/newspaper. Partial dates and missing lunar dates are disclosed. normalize_by re
get_topic_distribution — Counts of offline LDA topic assignments, optionally over time. Topic labels are interpretive model outputs; exact topic_id filters select assignments rather tha
get_field_distribution — Rank exact metadata values, splitting pipe-separated tags. Reports missing metadata and optional coverage over time. Choose spatial for mentioned places, countr
get_cooccurrence — Count pairs of metadata values co-tagged on the same items. Matrix/network views show descriptive associations, not causal links. Filters apply before pair coun
get_place_distribution — Place tags joined to authority coordinates. Separates publication countries from mentioned places; missing geocodes are counted explicitly.
get_semantic_map — Stable-hash sample of matching stored embeddings, projected with PCA. Reports eligible, invalid, missing and capped counts, seed and explained variance. Group c
get_similar_items — Nearest stored embeddings by cosine similarity, without an API key. Scores rank reading candidates; no threshold proves a reprint. Returns source IDs and dates
get_lexical_metrics — Text length, lexical richness and readability by country/newspaper/year. Metrics are precomputed; readability is French-specific and excludes other languages. M
search_publications — Search Islamic publications (periodical issues, books). `keyword` matches title, subject, table of contents, and full OCR text (TOC hits come back as matching_t
list_periodicals — List the Islamic periodical/series titles in the publications subset, with issue counts and year ranges. Use the returned newspaper value as the `newspaper` fil
get_publication_fulltext — Full OCR text of a publication in 25k-char parts (follow `next_offset`), or ~2000-char excerpts around keyword matches (accent-insensitive; capped: see match_co
search_references — Search academic references (journal articles, book chapters, theses, books, reports) by keyword and metadata. `keyword` is a single substring match over title +
get_reference — Full bibliographic record for one academic reference (by id), including the complete abstract (present for ~51% of references), subjects, DOI/URL, and host-work
search_documents — Search the small archival-documents subset (~26 items: Islamic association reports, flyers, project documents — mostly Burkina Faso). Use French concept keyword
get_document — Get one archival document (by id): full metadata, AI description, and OCR text, in 25k-char parts (follow `next_offset`). Pass a `keyword` to get ~2000-char exc
search_audiovisual — Search audiovisual materials by keyword and metadata: francophone web video from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin (TV reports, association and campus recordings), p
list_audiovisual — List audiovisual materials, newest first (francophone web video from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin; deposited Nigerian Hausa/Arabic recordings). Filter by countr
get_audiovisual — Get one audiovisual record by id: full description and transcription (where one exists), creator/publishing channel, duration, medium, subjects, places, languag
search_images — Search the IWAC photographs (30 items: mosques, radio stations, schools, signage and street scenes documented during fieldwork). Keyword matches title, creator,
get_image — Get one photograph by id: title, photographer, capture date, place and coordinates, subjects, rights, the IIIF manifest, and the full-resolution `image_url`. Th

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Field history (10 recent events)

3 d ago · declared · version → "3.9.0"
1 mo ago · declared · version → "3.6.0"
1 mo ago · declared · version → "3.5.2"
1 mo ago · declared · homepageUrl → "https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/"
1 mo ago · declared · repoUrl → "https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server"
1 mo ago · declared · summary → "Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets."
1 mo ago · declared · protocols → ["mcp"]
1 mo ago · declared · version → "3.5.1"
1 mo ago · declared · description → "Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets."
1 mo ago · declared · publisherName → "fmadore"