Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)

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• Search IWAC

  Search the Islam West Africa Collection across newspaper articles, Islamic publications, archival documents, academic references, audiovisual recordings, photographs, and the authority index (persons/places/organisations/events/subjects). Pass ONE concept or name — e.g. 'Tijaniyya', 'laïcité', 'Sheikh Gumi', 'pèlerinage'. Matching is accent- and case-insensitive; a multi-word query requires every word to appear somewhere in the item, so prefer a single concept per call. Write query strings and c

• Fetch IWAC item

  Retrieve the full text and metadata of one IWAC item by an id returned from `search` (format '<category>:<number>', e.g. 'articles:28576'). Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata}: `text` is the item's OCR / abstract / transcription / description, `url` is the canonical islam.zmo.de link to cite, and `metadata` holds the remaining fields (author, date, country, newspaper, AI sentiment, …). Categories: articles, publications, references, documents, index, audiovisual, images.

• Search newspaper articles

  Search IWAC newspaper articles by keyword (title + OCR + AI abstracts, French and English), country, newspaper, subject, and date range. Use French concept keywords regardless of the user's report language. Matching is accent- and case-insensitive.

• Get article details

  Get one article (by id): full metadata, the AI abstract (description_ai), AI sentiment, and OCR text. Pass a `keyword` to get ~2000-char excerpts around each match instead of the full (capped) OCR.

• Filter articles by AI sentiment

  Filter articles by gpt-5-6-luna sentiment labels (accent/case-insensitive exact match). One model's reading, not a consensus — 4 other models scored the same articles and often disagree; get_sentiment_distribution with model:"all" shows by how much. `subjectivity` is much the weakest of the three scales, so treat a set selected on it as a lead to read rather than as a finding.

• Aggregate AI sentiment

  Aggregate AI polarity, centrality and subjectivity across a filter set. 5 models scored the corpus independently — gpt-5-6-luna, mistral-small-2603, deepseek-v4-flash-0731, gemma-4-31b-it, qwen3-8-27b — so model:"all" returns each one's distribution plus how often they AGREE. Treat disagreement as a fact about the judgement rather than noise: corpus-wide the panel is unanimous on polarity for only ~32% of articles, so in a set where the models split no single one's number should be quoted alone.

• Search authority index

  Search the IWAC authority index (persons, places, organisations, events, subjects) by name. Accent/case-insensitive.

• Get index entry details

  Get full details of an index entry by id (raw dataset columns, French names — Titre, Prénom, Coordonnées…).

• List sujets from the index

  List sujets from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first).

• List lieux from the index

  List lieux from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first). The optional 'country' filter selects entries that APPEAR IN records from that country (mentioned-in, not located-in), ranked by collection-wide 'frequency' — so foreign and cross-border entries can appear. Nigeria returns none here (index frequency is computed from articles + publications + references, which have no Nigerian items — Nigeria is audiovisual only).

• List personnes from the index

  List personnes from the IWAC index, sorted by frequency (most-referenced first). The optional 'country' filter selects entries that APPEAR IN records from that country (mentioned-in, not located-in), ranked by collection-wide 'frequency' — so foreign and cross-border entries can appear. Nigeria returns none here (index frequency is computed from articles + publications + references, which have no Nigerian items — Nigeria is audiovisual only).

• Collection statistics

  Overall statistics for every IWAC subset, including `fulltext_coverage` — how many items in each subset actually carry searchable full text in this public dataset. Read that before treating any keyword count as a full-text census.

• Newspaper statistics

  Per-newspaper article counts and date ranges.

• Compare countries

  Compare article counts, newspaper counts, date ranges, and gpt-5-6-luna polarity across countries.

• Coverage over time

  Counts of matching items per year (or month) — the direct way to chart coverage trends over time instead of paging through search results. Defaults to articles; also works on publications, references, documents, audiovisual, and images. Accepts the same filters as the corresponding search_* tool (keyword = ONE substring over the subset's text fields, country, newspaper/series, subject, date range). Optional group_by=country|newspaper returns one distribution per group. Items dated only to a year

• Topic distribution

  How a filtered set distributes across the precomputed LDA topics, each labelled by its top terms (articles carry 30 topics and are ~99.5% classified; references have their own 33-topic model and only ~46% carry an assignment, so read its `classified` against `total_matches`). Topics are assigned offline over the full text, so they describe what a piece is ABOUT rather than which words it contains — use this instead of keyword counting to map a corpus. Optional over_time returns per-year counts f

• Rank a field's values

  Rank the values of one multi-valued field across a filtered set — the direct way to answer 'which places does this coverage name most', 'who signs these articles', 'what subjects dominate'. Pipe-joined fields (subject, spatial, author, language, country) are split, so an article tagged 'Prière|Ramadan' counts once for each. Optional over_time adds the per-year share of items that carry ANY value for the field, which is how you see e.g. bylines appearing as the press professionalises.

• Co-occurrence matrix

  How often the top values of a multi-valued field appear on the SAME item — a subject/place co-mention matrix. Answers 'what is X discussed alongside' without reading anything: the pair counts are the structure of the tagging. Returns the top values, the full symmetric matrix (diagonal = each value's own count) and the strongest pairs.

• Places on a map

  Places named by a filtered set of items, joined to the index's authority records so each carries coordinates where the index has them. Use this rather than get_field_distribution when the question is geographic — where coverage clusters — and the plain ranking when it is not. Only `Lieux` index entries are geocoded (555 of 683); persons, organisations and events carry no coordinates and never will, and any named place with no index entry comes back under `ungeocoded` rather than being dropped.

• Semantic scatter

  A 2-D scatter of a filtered set, projected from the stored 768-dimension embeddings by PCA. Shows which items sit near each other in meaning — where a set splits into distinct strands and where it is one cloud. Read `explained_variance` before drawing any conclusion: with 768 dimensions the first two components usually carry a modest share, and a scatter explaining 6% of the variance is a much weaker claim than one explaining 40%. This is PCA, not UMAP: it spreads the broadest axes of variation

• Find similar items

  The items nearest to a given one in meaning, by cosine similarity over the stored embeddings. Answers 'what else is like this' without a keyword — it finds pieces on the same event or theme that share no vocabulary. A neighbour above ~0.85 is usually the same story reprinted or lightly rewritten, which is how to spot syndication in this corpus; 0.6-0.8 is 'same subject, different piece'. Needs no API key: the item's own vector is a column, so nothing has to be embedded at request time. This is p

• Press language metrics

  Readability, lexical richness and length of the press text, averaged by year, newspaper or country. `Lisibilite_OCR` is a French readability score (higher = easier); `Richesse_Lexicale_OCR` is MATTR, a moving-average type-token ratio that is ALREADY length-robust — do not normalise it by word count or bin it by length. Readability is computed against a French lexicon, so non-French items are excluded from that metric (and counted in readability_excluded) rather than reported as unreadable; MATTR

• Search publications

  Search Islamic publications (periodical issues, books). `keyword` matches title, subject, table of contents, and full OCR text (TOC hits come back as matching_toc_entries); use French concept keywords regardless of the user's report language. Filter by newspaper/series, subject, country and year. Use list_periodicals to discover series titles, and get_publication_fulltext for keyword excerpts from a single issue.

• List periodicals

  List the Islamic periodical/series titles in the publications subset, with issue counts and year ranges. Use the returned newspaper value as the `newspaper` filter on search_publications.

• Get publication full text

  Full OCR text of a publication, optionally returning ~2000-char excerpts around keyword matches (accent-insensitive; capped — see match_count vs excerpts_returned).