The legacy Archive Search had limited search functionality but a solid database schema. With new tools now available it is possible to search it using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and others using MCP servers.

The Archive Search API is available at https://www.digitalguitararchive.com/archive/api

The Swagger doc is available at https://www.digitalguitararchive.com/archive/api/docs/

The OpenAPI spect is available at https://digitalguitararchive.com/archive/api/openapi.json

The MCP server code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rcoldwell/mcp Please follow the instructions in the Readme file to set up the MCP server locally and connect to AI tools using the mcpServers json configuration. The MCP server code is already configured to use the Archive Search APIs so all you need to do is build locally and set up the configuration, then ask Claude or other tools to find information in the guitar-archive MCP server. Please contact me if you have any problems or suggestions.

The new Archive search is based on Omeka S and there are not any good pre-configured MCP servers that I can find. If there is interest I’ll create one but the search interface in the new Archive Search works well.