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May 30, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Agentic Access to Linked Open Data: An MCP Server for Chat Interaction with the DraCor Open Knowledge Graph

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IBIngo Börner

Key Points

  • The aim is to improve access to the DraCor Open Knowledge Graph for humanities scholars by enabling plain language queries.
  • Implemented a Model Context Protocol server to allow large language models to autonomously query the DraCor Open Knowledge Graph.
  • Users ask questions in natural language, which the model translates into SPARQL queries and provides answers in prose.
  • Focused on 'docstring engineering' to enhance tool documentation for better user guidance.
  • Successfully demonstrated a working MCP server that translates plain language into SPARQL queries.
  • Showed improved accessibility to linked open data for humanities scholars, potentially increasing engagement with expert systems.

Abstract

Poster presented at the CCLS 2026, Potsdam The "DraCor Open Knowledge Graph," developed in the DraCorOS project (OSCARS Cascading Grant), links dramatic texts, their metadata, computational tools, publications, and training materials as semantically enriched Linked Open Data, modelled with CIDOC-CRM, LRMoo, CRMdig, and a slim DraCor extension. Yet querying it requires SPARQL—a barrier that leaves such expert systems under-used by the humanities scholars who would benefit most. This poster presents an approach to democratizing access by implementing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets Large Language Models autonomously query the graph: users ask in plain language, the model writes and runs the SPARQL, and answers in prose. The central challenge is "docstring engineering"—designing tool documentation that teaches the model the data model, query patterns, namespaces, named graphs, and dataset quirks.

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Ingo Börner (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1a81bf0307b7850943385ahttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20422860
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