{
  "name": "ntlsn",
  "description": "NTLSN hosted MCP server — Australian higher-education teaching & learning open data.",
  "transport": "Model Context Protocol over HTTP — POST JSON-RPC 2.0 to this URL.",
  "methods": [
    "initialize",
    "tools/list",
    "tools/call",
    "ping"
  ],
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "upcoming_events",
      "description": "Upcoming Australian higher-education teaching & learning events — conferences, showcases, workshops and webinars across the 42 universities. Optional university id (e.g. 'usq') and a limit."
    },
    {
      "name": "events_by_type",
      "description": "Upcoming Australian higher-education events of one type (e.g. 'conference', 'workshop', 'webinar', 'symposium', 'showcase'). Returned chronologically. Optional limit."
    },
    {
      "name": "event_detail",
      "description": "One NTLSN event by its numeric id, returned as a Schema.org Event (JSON-LD): name, dates, description, organiser institution and place. Call upcoming_events / events_by_type first to find ids."
    },
    {
      "name": "search_archive",
      "description": "Search the rescued archive of 1,431 ALTC- and OLT-funded teaching-scholarship works (1994-2025) by title or author."
    },
    {
      "name": "best_practice",
      "description": "Search 80 curated higher-education learning-&-teaching best-practice works (the LTR best-practice collection) by title or author."
    },
    {
      "name": "universities",
      "description": "All 42 Australian universities with their Learning & Teaching team pages, alliance group, and the Traditional Country each stands on."
    },
    {
      "name": "recognition_framework",
      "description": "The NTLSN Recognition Credit Framework v1.0 — recognition tiers, point thresholds and domains for sector teaching-and-learning scholarship. Editorial draft (evidence-informed; not a sector-ratified standard)."
    },
    {
      "name": "recognition_crosswalk",
      "description": "Illustrative cross-walk of teaching-recognition evidence (e.g. student feedback data, a teaching award, SoTL publications) against four Australian HE recognition pathways — PSF 2023 fellowship, AAUT national awards, a promotion case, and Scholarship of T&L. Not an official equivalence. Optional keyword matches evidence names; omit to return every evidence type and both frameworks."
    },
    {
      "name": "scholarly_lookup",
      "description": "Look up one scholarly entity via its public API: an ORCID iD (researcher profile), a DOI (Crossref work record) or a ROR id (research institution). Pass exactly ONE of orcid / doi / ror. Cached and rate-limited."
    }
  ],
  "example": {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "upcoming_events",
      "arguments": {
        "limit": 3
      }
    }
  },
  "docs": "https://www.ntlsn.com/developers.html"
}