AM-Digital-Research-Environment/amira-mcp-server

Read-only MCP server for AMIRA, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence research-data platform on Omeka S — 26 tools over ~4,000 research items, 93 projects, 1,600+ people, publications, podcasts and video transcripts. Offline-first bundled snapshot, no API key, every result citable by URL. # AMIRA MCP Server Read-only Model Context Protocol server for the **Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)**, the research-data platform of the **Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence** at the University of Bayreuth. AMIRA is published on the cluster's public **Omeka S** site at data.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de. AMIRA is built and maintained by the Cluster's **Digital Research Environment (DRE)**, its digital infrastructure unit. The DRE designs, builds, and maintains the data systems that connect researchers across the **Africa Multiple Research Centres (AMRCs)** and partner institutions worldwide. Curation and description are joint efforts with partners at the AMRCs in **Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo**, **Rhodes University**, the **University of Lagos**, and **Moi University**. Bayreuth hosts the coordinating DRE infrastructure and metadata layer. **Federal University of Bahia** is a privileged partner, not an AMRC. Storage stays distributed by default: data remains in its local repository, while Bayreuth holds the metadata layer that points to it. Research data becomes findable without being relocated. High-quality metadata makes researchers' data more discoverable and their work more visible to a wider community of peers. This server exposes AMIRA's **projects**, thematic **research sections**, ~4,000 digitised **research items**, **people**, **institutions**, **groups**, **collections**, the cluster **bibliography with searchable full text** (extracted from the open-access PDFs) and its **journals**, **podcast episodes with transcripts**, and the cluster's **YouTube videos with searchable transcripts** — as 26 core tools an LLM can query. From one MCP interface, clients can move across records and the places, languages, and subjects that connect them. Every record carries an **`amira_url`** — its public page on the Omeka S site (`…/s/amira/item/ `) — so findings can be **cited as links** back to the source. AMIRA focuses on the Cluster's resea …