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The National Archives (Arkivverket)

Name: The National Archives (Arkivverket)
License: NLOD

The National Archives offer the OAI-PMH protocol for harvesting archival metadata from Arkivverket's collections. Supports Identify, ListSets and ListRecords with incremental synchronisation via from/until date parameters and resumptionToken.

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Data volume

Weekly

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/identify

{
  "data": "..."
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

nasjonalarkivet_identify

nasjonalarkivet_records

nasjonalarkivet_sets

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nasjonalarkivet": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/nasjonalarkivet",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

API endpoints

GET

/identify

OAI-PMH Identify

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/identify
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/identify"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/sets

OAI-PMH ListSets

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/sets
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/sets"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/records

OAI-PMH ListRecords

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/records
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/nasjonalarkivet/records"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

The National Archives (Arkivverket) is openly available — create an account to get started.

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