# Video History Project

- Registry name: `org.videohistoryproject/research` · version 1.0.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Research & knowledge, Search & data
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): logging, resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=org.videohistoryproject%2Fresearch
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/org.videohistoryproject--research.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Search experimental video history, read public records, follow sources and export citations.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `export\_citations`: Export citations for 1–25 VHP IDs or URLs. format is text or ris; target is publication \(the cataloged work\) or page \(the VHP web page\). Missing publication metadata returns a per-item error; choose page to cite a biography or history page.
- `get\_record`: Read a public VHP record by ID or VHP URL, resolving old addresses locally. Returns metadata, source links, citations and a section of existing text. Default section is body; choose other section names from sections. Follow content.nextOffset with the same section and version for complete text. Link
- `list\_terms`: Find catalog author or subject filter keys by part of a name. Returns exact keys, display labels and counts of discoverable records. field is author or subject. Follow nextPage; use a returned key in search\_records.
- `search\_records`: Search public VHP records by words or quoted phrases. Empty query browses. Combine exact author/subject keys from list\_terms, recorded years and a type from describe\_collection. Follow nextPage. Excerpts label their source; read get\_record before quoting.
- `get\_related\_records`: Get the site's existing similarity suggestions for a public record. These are research leads, not evidence of a historical relationship. May return no suggestions when the index has none or the editor has disabled them.
- `describe\_collection`: Describe the Video History Project collection, searchable text, filters, citation practices and response limits. Useful when beginning research.

Measured by MCP Station. Methods: https://mcpstation.net/methods.html · Terms: https://mcpstation.net/terms.html