Open Archives

Name: Open Archives
Author: Coret Genealogy

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Genealogical search agent for the Open Archives archival aggregator. Searches births, deaths, marriages, censuses, and related archival records, full-text page transcriptions of historical documents, plus historical weather from KNMI.

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when	check	result	http	latency	detail
3 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	40 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
10 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	43 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
16 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	32 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
23 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	45 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
29 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	57 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
35 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	38 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	116 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	38 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	41 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools
3 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	49 ms	server openarchieven 1.1.1 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 22 tools

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search_records — Search genealogical records Searches the genealogical dataset and returns found persons and records. Supports filtering by archive, source type, event place, b
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
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, d
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.
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, Tw
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.
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
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 wit
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 a
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
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 fo
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.
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 ye
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 a
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 cen
search_transcriptions — Full-text search across page transcriptions Performs a full-text search across the page transcriptions of historical documents indexed by Open Archives. Mirror
browse_transcriptions — Browse transcriptions hierarchically Returns a hierarchical browse of available page transcriptions. Mirrors `/transcripties/lijst/`. Three modes, depending on
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 s
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_t

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Search Records — Search genealogical records by name, place, archive, source type, etc.
Show Record — Show a single genealogical record by archive + identifier.
Match Record — Match a person to birth and death records.
Find Births — Find birth records.
Births N Years Ago — List births from N years ago.
Find Deaths — Find death records.
Find Marriages — Find marriage records.
List Archives — List all archives with statistics.
Record Stats — Record count per archive.
Source-Type Stats — Record count per source type.
Event-Type Stats — Record count per event type.
Comment Stats — Comment count statistics.
Family-Name Stats — Family name frequency.
First-Name Stats — First name frequency.
Profession Stats — Profession frequency.
Breakdown Stats — Cross-tabulation: record counts grouped by archive, source type, event type, place or year.
Historical Weather — Historical weather from KNMI.
Census Data (1795–1899) — Dutch census data 1795–1899.
Search Transcriptions — Full-text search across page transcriptions of historical documents.
Browse Transcriptions — Hierarchically browse transcriptions by source archive, archive number or inventory.
Show Transcription — Retrieve a single page transcription by id.
View Transcription (IIIF deep-zoom) — Open transcribed pages in an interactive IIIF deep-zoom viewer with the transcription alongside (falls back to inline preview images).

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Official MCP Registryio.github.coret/openarchieven-mcp-server

first seen 1 mo ago · fetched 3 d agoopen ↗

A2A Agent Cardhttps://mcp.openarchieven.nl/.well-known/agent-card.json

first seen 20 d ago · fetched 20 d agoopen ↗

Field history (12 recent events)

20 d ago · declared · protocols → ["a2a","mcp"]
20 d ago · declared · kind → "agent"
20 d ago · declared · summary → "Genealogical search agent for the Open Archives archival aggregator. Searches births, deaths, marriages, censuses, and
20 d ago · declared · description → "Genealogical search agent for the Open Archives archival aggregator. Searches births, deaths, marriages, censuses, and
20 d ago · declared · publisherName → "Coret Genealogy"
20 d ago · declared · publisherUrl → "https://genealogie.coret.org"
20 d ago · declared · homepageUrl → "https://github.com/coret/openarchieven-mcp-server"
1 mo ago · declared · summary → "MCP server for Open Archives: Dutch genealogical records and historical page transcriptions."
1 mo ago · declared · description → "MCP server for Open Archives: Dutch genealogical records and historical page transcriptions."
1 mo ago · declared · publisherName → "coret"
1 mo ago · declared · homepageUrl → "https://www.openarchieven.nl"
1 mo ago · declared · repoUrl → "https://github.com/coret/openarchieven-mcp-server"

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