DigitalNZ MCP connector
DigitalNZ is a national platform that aggregates digital content and metadata from New Zealand's libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations. The DigitalNZ MCP connector allows AI agents to run queries against the DigitalNZ metadata search service and retrieve detailed metadata for individual records. It also supports discovering related content by finding records similar to a specified item, helping surface connections across the collection.
Authentication type
- API Key - Requires a static API key to be configured before the agent can connect to the service.
Uses
Use the DigitalNZ MCP connector to perform the following actions:
- Search New Zealand cultural heritage records from libraries, museums, and archives
- Retrieve detailed metadata for a specific digital record by its identifier
- Discover related content by finding records similar to a known item
- Build research workflows that pull cultural and historical data automatically
- Enrich digital archives with metadata sourced from New Zealand institutions
- Support genealogy and heritage research with searchable digitised collections
- Surface related artefacts and documents to expand a research topic
- Automate content discovery for exhibitions, publications, or educational projects
Example prompts
Use the following example prompts to invoke DigitalNZ MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:
Find all DigitalNZ records related to Maori weaving techniques.Search DigitalNZ for photographs of Wellington from the 1900s.Show me the metadata for this DigitalNZ record ID.Look up details on a specific artefact stored in DigitalNZ.Find items in DigitalNZ similar to this museum record.Search DigitalNZ for archival documents about the New Zealand Wars.Get more records like this one from DigitalNZ.Pull metadata for a manuscript held in a DigitalNZ collection.Search DigitalNZ for newspaper clippings mentioning Christchurch earthquakes.Find related artworks to this piece using DigitalNZ.
DigitalNZ MCP connector tools
The DigitalNZ MCP connector provides the following tools. Each tool maps to a specific action you can invoke from your AI agent or automation.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| getRecordsFormat | Run queries against DigitalNZ metadata search service. |
| getRecords | View metadata associated with a single record. |
| getRecordsMoreLikeThisFormat | The "More Like This" call returns similar records to the specified ID. |
