About Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Gallica’s SRU API: metadata or full-text search over 10M+ digitised documents, filterable by type (newspaper issue, monograph, manuscript, map, image) and year. Each hit carries its ARK link. Search in French for best recall.
Questions you can ask Gallica
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once Gallica is connected.
“Search French newspapers from 1832 for reports on the cholera epidemic in Paris.”
What comes back: Newspaper issues with title, date and ARK link, matched in the OCR full text.
“Find digitised 18th-century maps of Brittany in Gallica.”
What comes back: Map records with title, cartographer, date and a permanent ARK link to the scan.
Gallica MCP tools
The 1 tool the Gallica server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
gallica_searchSearch Gallica.
Using Gallica in Kahubi
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Gallica.
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