@pipeworx/georgia-archives

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Tools: 4

The three public catalogues of the National Archives of Georgia — the scientific reference library (Koha), the national fonds register, and the Georgian national film catalogue.

Tools

• archives_library_search(query, index?, offset?) — search the reference library by keyword / title / author / subject. Returns a true total (not a page count) plus 20 records, each with its permanent biblionumber and catalogue URL.
• archives_library_record(biblionumber) — one record as parsed MARC: the full field/subfield structure plus a flattened summary (title, authors, imprint, ISBN, languages, subjects).
• archives_fonds_browse(page?) — walk the fonds register: ~14,650 fonds over 586 pages of 25. Each row carries the holding regional archive, the fond number, the fond name, the historical names it held with their date ranges, and the inclusive dates of its administrative and personnel records.
• archives_film_search(name?, page?, locale?) — the film catalogue’s 652 newsreels, documentaries and features, with directors and camera operators as {id, name} objects carrying the catalogue’s own person ids.

Auth

Keyless. Every endpoint answers without a credential.

Data sources

• https://library.archives.gov.ge/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&q=…&format=rss2 — Koha OpenSearch RSS. <opensearch:totalResults> is an honest total and &offset=N is honoured, so pagination has a real cursor.
• https://library.archives.gov.ge/api/v1/public/biblios/{id} — Koha public REST. /api/v1/ itself is a keyless Swagger 2.0 spec, 129 paths, 13 of them public.
• https://archival-services.gov.ge/fonds/?page=N — the fonds register.
• https://kinokatalogi.archive.gov.ge/{ka|en}/records?name=… — the film catalogue, an Inertia/Laravel app that returns JSON when asked.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover the hard way

Koha’s biblio route rejects Accept: application/json with a 400. It requires a MARC media type — application/marc-in-json or application/marcxml+xml. Test it with default headers and you will file a working endpoint as dead.

The fonds register’s trailing slash is load-bearing. /fonds?page=2 301s to /fonds/ and drops the query, so you get page 1 back with a 200. Its search is POST-only behind a _token CSRF field, and the same parameter names sent over GET are silently ignored — page 1 again, which reads as a clean zero-result. There is no JSON surface here at all (main.js greps out to jQuery internals, zero endpoints). Browse-and-index is the only honest shape; do not build a search proxy on it.

The film catalogue ignores unknown parameters instead of rejecting them. search=, keyword= and title= all return the unfiltered 652 with a 200. Only name filters. That is why this pack accepts exactly one filter and nothing else — an accepted-but-ignored argument would hand the caller the whole catalogue dressed as a search result.

X-Inertia-Version is a deploy fingerprint, not a constant. Hard-code it and you get a 409 the next time they deploy. currentInertiaVersion() reads it out of the page’s data-page attribute on every call, which costs one extra request and cannot go stale.

OAI-PMH is not enabled on the Koha instance (/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify → 404), so there is no bulk path; the REST + OpenSearch pair is the whole surface.

Tools

• archives_library_search — Search the scientific reference library catalogue of the National Archives of Georgia (Koha ILS) by keyword, title, author or subject. Returns a true result total plus the page of records, each with i
• archives_library_record — Fetch one catalogue record from the National Archives of Georgia reference library by its biblionumber (the id archives_library_search returns), as parsed MARC. Returns the full MARC field/subfield st
• archives_fonds_browse — Browse the fonds register of the National Archives of Georgia — roughly 14,650 fonds across 586 pages, 25 per page. Each row gives the holding regional archive, the archive name, the fond number, the
• archives_film_search — Search the Georgian national film catalogue (kinokatalogi, National Archives of Georgia) — 652 newsreels, documentaries and features. Filter by title with name; returns each film with its release ye