About this source
Trove is Australia’s national discovery service: digitised newspapers back to 1803, books, journals, pictures, maps and manuscripts. Requires your own free Trove API key (National Library of Australia). Served through the Pipeworx community gateway.
Questions you can ask Trove
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.
“How did Australian newspapers report the 1918 influenza epidemic in its first month?”
What comes back: Digitised newspaper articles with title, date and page, linked to the Trove record.
“Find photographs and manuscripts about the Snowy Mountains Scheme.”
What comes back: Works across formats with their Trove identifiers and holding libraries.
What the assistant can do with it
The 2 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
searchSearch the Trove collection by keyword.
workFetch full details for one Trove item by id - a Trove work id (from search).
Good to know
- Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
- 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 Trove.
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