Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)

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• Connection: Computer or cloud
• Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
• Category: Search & AI memory

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• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/

claude mcp add --transport http iwac https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "iwac": {
      "url": "https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "iwac": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

https://islam.zmo.de/mcp/

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What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 6, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• search

  Search the Islam West Africa Collection across newspaper articles, Islamic publications, archival documents, academic references, audiovisual recordings, photographs, and the authority index (persons/places/organisations/events/subjects). Pass ONE concept or name — e.g. 'Tijaniyy

• fetch

  Retrieve the full text and metadata of one IWAC item by an id returned from `search` (format ' : ', e.g. 'articles:28576'). Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata}: `text` is the item's OCR / abstract / transcription / description, `url` is the canonical islam.zmo.de link to cit

• explore_corpus

  Selection workbench: items, concordance, coverage, compare (requires comparison), attention, aliases, or paginated manifest/CSL-JSON/BibTeX exports. Exact filters intersect. limit/offset also page compare/coverage/attention cells. Coverage measures archive availability. Exports i

• search_articles

  Search IWAC newspaper articles by keyword (title + OCR + AI abstracts, French and English), country, newspaper, subject, and date range. Use French concept keywords regardless of the user's report language. Matching is accent- and case-insensitive.

• 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` to get ~2000-char excerpts around each match instead.

• semantic_search_articles

  Semantic search over article title + full text, including articles whose OCR is not public. Query in any language. Runs the corpus model, EmbeddingGemma 2, locally with no API key (first use downloads ~350 MB). similarity_score only ranks within one query.

• search_by_sentiment

  Filter articles by claude-haiku-5-5 sentiment labels (accent/case-insensitive exact match). One model's reading, not a consensus — 5 other models scored the same articles and often disagree; get_sentiment_distribution with model:"all" shows by how much. `subjectivity` is much the

• 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. Choose compare_models and agreement_field for pairwise Cohen's kappa and quadratic weighted kappa, with explicit denomin

• 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 country (mentioned-in, not located-in), ranked by collection-wide 'frequency' — so foreign and cross-border entries can appe

• 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 country (mentioned-in, not located-in), ranked by collection-wide 'frequency' — so foreign and cross-border entries can

• 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. Read that before treating any keyword count as a full-text census.

• get_newspaper_stats

  Per-newspaper article counts and date ranges.

• get_country_comparison

  Compare article counts, newspaper counts, date ranges, and claude-haiku-5-5 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 returns numerator counts and per-bucket denominators in the same country/outlet/date scope, removing thematic filters. Sha

• 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 than keyword matches. Reports unclassified coverage.

• get_field_distribution

  Rank exact metadata values, splitting pipe-separated tags. Reports missing metadata and optional coverage over time. Choose spatial for mentioned places, country for stored country tags, or subject/author/language.

• 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 counting; top_n caps the vocabulary.

• 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 counts describe the sample. Coordinates are chart-only; this is not the published UMAP landscape. Needs no API key.

• get_similar_items

  Nearest stored embeddings by cosine similarity. Articles and documents lead with the dataset's published top 10. Scores run high (unrelated ~0.7) and rank reading candidates; >= 0.97 suggests a near-duplicate, but no threshold proves a reprint. Returns source IDs and dates. Corpu

• get_lexical_metrics

  Text length, lexical richness and readability by country/newspaper/year. Metrics are precomputed; readability is French-specific and excludes other languages. Missing values are disclosed. Compare distributions as descriptive evidence.

• 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_toc_entries); use French concept keywords regardless of the user's report language. Filter by newspaper/series, subject,

• 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` filter on search_publications.

• 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_count vs excerpts_returned).

• semantic_search_publications

  Semantic search over publication tables of contents, present for ~40% of issues (none for An-Nasr Vendredi, 130 of 695 Islam Info issues): use search_publications for the rest. Rows show the first 600 characters of each table. Query in any language. Runs the corpus model, Embeddi

• search_references

  Search academic references (journal articles, book chapters, theses, books, reports) by keyword and metadata. `keyword` requires every word in the title + abstract ("quote" a phrase). References are multilingual: try French and English title/abstract keywords when relevant; metad

• 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 details (book, volume, issue, pages).

• semantic_search_references

  Semantic search over academic references by title + abstract, across languages. Only references with an abstract (about half) are covered; use search_references for the rest. Runs the corpus model, EmbeddingGemma 2, locally with no API key (first use downloads ~350 MB). similarit

• search_documents

  Search the small archival-documents subset (~26 items: Islamic association reports, flyers, project documents — mostly Burkina Faso). Use French concept keywords regardless of the user's report language. Most have OCR text and an AI description. Call with no arguments to list all

• 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 excerpts around each match instead, useful for long documents.

• search_audiovisual

  Search audiovisual materials by keyword and metadata: francophone web video from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin (TV reports, association and campus recordings), plus deposited Nigerian Hausa/Arabic recordings. Keyword matches title, creator, publisher, subject, spatial, language, s

• list_audiovisual

  List audiovisual materials, newest first (francophone web video from Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin; deposited Nigerian Hausa/Arabic recordings). Filter by country, publishing channel or `source_type`.

• get_audiovisual

  Get one audiovisual record by id: full description and transcription (where one exists), creator/publishing channel, duration, medium, subjects, places, language, rights, source, and three distinct links: `url` (the IWAC page, the one to cite), `external_url` (where a harvested v

• search_images

  Search the IWAC photographs (30 items: mosques, radio stations, schools, signage and street scenes documented during fieldwork). Keyword matches title, creator, subject, place and the rare caption. Each result carries `image_url` (the full-resolution file), `coordinates` ('lat, l

• 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`. The server returns URLs, not image bytes.

• semantic_search_images

  Find photographs by describing what they SHOW, in any language ('mosquée en construction', 'street signage in Arabic'). This is cross-modal: the ranking runs against a multimodal embedding of the photograph itself, not against a caption, so it works even though only 2 of the 30 i

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