kltng/humanities-skills

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A marketplace for academic research skills focused on East Asian historical and geographical data analysis. Includes biographical databases (CBDB for China, JBDB for Japan), historical GIS (CHGIS TGAZ), Wikidata integration, and more.

GitHub stars: 9
plugins: 31
last updated: Nov 11, 2026

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Plugins

1alma-sru-catalogsSearch 21 research library catalogs at once via public Alma SRU — Michigan, Princeton, Yale, Penn, MIT, Duke, Pittsburgh, Illinois, Berkeley, UCLA, Toronto, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Sydney, and six Taiwan universities (NTU, NCCU, NCKU, NSYSU, NCHU, CCU) — with CJK fields, holdings, subject vocabularies, and classification schemes1.1.3version

2argue-against-meStructured academic debate — Claude adopts an opposing position from named historiographical schools and challenges your thesis through formal rounds with adjustable intensity, producing a scorecard, revised thesis, and bibliography gap analysis1.0.2version

3arxiv-searchSearch arXiv for preprints and scholarly articles across physics, mathematics, computer science, and more — field-specific queries, boolean logic, date filtering, and bulk retrieval with pagination1.0.2version

4cbdb-apiQuery the China Biographical Database API for comprehensive biographical data about historical Chinese figures from the 7th century BCE through the 19th century CE1.1.2version

5cbdb-localQuery the China Biographical Database locally via SQLite for 656K+ historical Chinese figures — biographical data, kinship networks, official postings, social associations, and examination records (7th c. BCE to 19th c. CE)1.0.2version

6chgis-tgazQuery the CHGIS Temporal Gazetteer API for historical Chinese placenames and administrative units from 222 BCE to 1911 CE1.1.2version

7cjk-calendarConvert between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese lunisolar calendar dates and Gregorian/Julian dates using a local SQLite database (~220 BCE to 1945 CE)1.0.2version

8columbia-clioSearch Columbia University Libraries' CLIO catalog for books, journals, manuscripts, and other holdings via its Blacklight JSON API — faceted filtering by format/language/location, detailed catalog records with call numbers and holdings data1.0.0version

9crossref-searchSearch Crossref's 188M+ DOI records — articles, books, chapters, JSTOR DOIs — with field queries and filters; look up DOIs, match free-text references, format citations (CSL, BibTeX, RIS), list references, and check DOI registration agencies1.0.1version

10europeana-collectionsSearch Europeana's 50M+ cultural heritage items from 4,000+ European museums, galleries, libraries, and archives — art, manuscripts, photographs, maps, 3D objects, audio, and video1.0.2version

11harvard-library-catalogSearch Harvard Library's 13M+ bibliographic records via LibraryCloud and retrieve MARC/MODS data via PRESTO — books, manuscripts, finding aids, and digital collections1.0.3version

12hathitrust-catalogLook up bibliographic records and digitized volumes in HathiTrust's 17M+ volume collection by ISBN, OCLC, LCCN, ISSN, or HathiTrust ID1.0.2version

13historical-mapGenerate interactive historical maps as standalone HTML files using Leaflet.js — markers, GeoJSON boundary overlays, historical tile layers, image overlays, WMS, and layer controls1.0.2version

14historical-timelineGenerate interactive historical timelines as standalone HTML files using TimelineJS3 — supports BCE/CE dates, eras, groups, media embedding, and rich text with zoom and navigation1.0.1version

15human-eval-reviewGenerate a single self-contained HTML file for human-in-the-loop evaluation of model output — confirm candidate matches, pick one, rate on a scale, judge yes/no, or free-text correct, with progress tracking, keyboard nav, browser autosave, and JSON export/resume1.0.2version

16jbdb-apiQuery the Japan Biographical Database API for biographical data about historical Japanese figures — persons, kinship, events, occupations, and geographic data via LoopBack REST1.0.2version

17loc-catalogSearch the Library of Congress digital collections via the loc.gov JSON API — digitized books, photos, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, audio, and film/video with date range filters1.0.2version

18local-audio-transcriptionTranscribe recordings on your own computer with Whisper, Qwen3-ASR (Cantonese and Chinese dialects), SenseVoice or Parakeet, with optional speaker labels; asks first whether the material must stay completely offline, proves the pipeline runs with the network blocked on a sample clip the user provides, then hands over a script to run after disconnecting; exports txt, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON, CSV and TEI1.0.0version

19local-ocrOCR PDFs, scans, or a whole corpus on your own computer with Datalab's open models (Chandra OCR 2, Surya OCR 2.5, Indra OCR): interview, hardware check, one-time model download, resumable runs, and export to JSON, text, Markdown, HTML, ALTO, PAGE XML, TEI, or hOCR, with a run report and a GitHub field report1.0.0version

20mit-timdexSearch MIT Libraries through TIMDEX, MIT's official GraphQL discovery API — library catalog, DSpace@MIT, ArchivesSpace, digital collections, and GIS data, with filters, facets, and semantic search1.0.3version

21nlb-singaporeSearch the National Library Board Singapore catalog for books, audiovisual materials, and digital resources — availability across NLB branches, new arrivals, checkout trends, and detailed bibliographic records1.0.1version

22northwestern-digital-collectionsSearch Northwestern University Libraries' Digital Collections (images, manuscripts, maps, audio, video) via its official API or hosted MCP server, with IIIF manifests1.0.1version

23openaire-searchSearch the OpenAIRE Graph — publications, theses, datasets, and repository copies from Crossref, DataCite, and thousands of repositories — with phrase search, open-access filters, and every known copy of a DOI1.0.1version

24pitt-library-catalogSearch the University of Pittsburgh Library System catalog (PittCat) via Alma's public SRU interface — title/author/subject/ISBN/OCLC/call number searches, CJK vernacular (880) fields, call numbers and availability, and online access1.1.3version

25princeton-library-catalogSearch the Princeton University Library catalog via Alma's public SRU interface — title/author/subject/ISBN/OCLC/call number searches, CJK vernacular (880) fields, East Asian Library call numbers and availability, and online access1.1.3version

26taiwan-ldt-authoritiesLook up Taiwan's LDT@Library authorities — Chinese name authorities with variants and sources, Chinese Subject Headings, and the Chinese classification — via its public reconciliation API and SPARQL endpoint1.0.1version

27tei-validatorValidate TEI P5 XML files, folders or teiCorpus files: well-formedness and structure, the official TEI schema (tei_all, via xmllint), and checks the schema cannot make (broken #id links, duplicate xml:id, impossible dates, date ranges in the wrong order, undeclared cbdb:/tgaz: prefixes, name markup, archival best practice), with line numbers, as text or JSON1.1.0version

28tgaz-sqliteQuery the TGAZ (Temporal Gazetteer) SQLite database locally for 82,000+ historical Chinese placenames spanning 763 BCE to 1911 CE — name search, spatial bounding box, temporal filtering, full-text search, administrative hierarchies, and raw SQL1.1.0version

29umich-library-catalogSearch the University of Michigan Library catalog via Alma's public SRU interface — title/author/subject/ISBN/OCLC/call number searches, CJK vernacular (880) fields, print call numbers and availability, and online access1.1.3version

30wikidata-searchSearch Wikidata for items, properties, and external identifiers using keyword search, semantic/hybrid search, SPARQL, and direct entity retrieval1.1.2version

31yale-library-catalogSearch the Yale University Library catalog via Alma's public SRU interface (CJK vernacular fields, call numbers, availability, online access links) and Yale LUX across Yale's libraries, museums, and archives1.1.3version

32zotero-localSearch, read, export, and add items in a local Zotero 8 desktop library through its HTTP API — import citations and PDFs, list collections and tags, read full text; with the optional Debug Bridge add-on, attach files and create collections. Cannot edit or delete existing items1.0.2version

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Listed since: Nov 8, 2025