generated: '2026-09-04'
method: derived
source: >-
  Derived from the first-party OpenAPI at
  openapi/british-columbia-data-catalogue-bcdc-api-openapi.json after searching for a
  published server found nothing.
provider: British Columbia Data Catalogue
providerId: british-columbia-data-catalogue
status: candidate
deployment:
  mode: none
  endpoint: null
  install: null
  package: null
  auth: none
  verified: derived
search_record:
  - what: Official or community MCP server for the BC Data Catalogue
    where:
      - github.com/bcgov (organization search for "mcp")
      - registry.modelcontextprotocol.io
      - web search
    result: >-
      None. The only MCP repositories in the bcgov organization are bcgov/raven and
      bcgov/rook, which are internal agent-orchestration projects, not a catalogue server.
      A third-party Canadian open-government MCP server exists but wraps open.canada.ca,
      not the B.C. catalogue.
  - what: Live MCP endpoint on any host in this record
    where: catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca, data.gov.bc.ca, openmaps.gov.bc.ca
    result: >-
      Not probed as a guess. No provider documentation names an MCP path, and guessing one
      that happens to answer 200 on an SPA catch-all would manufacture a false agent
      surface — every path on catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca returns the same 200 HTML shell.
note: >-
  Nobody ships an MCP server for this catalogue. The tools below are a CANDIDATE list
  derived from operations that exist and answer anonymously today; they are a design
  proposal, not a deployed surface. No endpoint is asserted.
tools:
  - name: search_datasets
    description: >-
      Search the 3,356 datasets in the BC Data Catalogue with a Solr query, optionally
      faceted.
    rest:
      - packageSearch
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/package_search (q, fq, sort, rows, start, facet, facet.field)
  - name: list_datasets
    description: List every dataset name in the catalogue.
    rest:
      - packageList
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/package_list (limit, offset)
  - name: get_dataset
    description: Retrieve the full metadata record and resource list for one dataset.
    rest:
      - packageShow
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/package_show (id)
  - name: list_organizations
    description: List the 244 B.C. government organizations publishing to the catalogue.
    rest:
      - organizationList
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/organization_list
  - name: get_organization
    description: Retrieve one publishing organization and its dataset count.
    rest:
      - organizationShow
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/organization_show (id)
  - name: list_groups
    description: List the 26 thematic groups, including the BC Government API Registry.
    rest:
      - groupList
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/group_list
  - name: get_group
    description: Retrieve one thematic group.
    rest:
      - groupShow
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/group_show (id)
  - name: list_tags
    description: List catalogue tags.
    rest:
      - tagList
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/tag_list
  - name: get_resource
    description: Retrieve one data resource (file, API or map service) attached to a dataset.
    rest:
      - resourceShow
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/resource_show (id)
  - name: search_resources
    description: Find resources by field, e.g. every WMS-format resource.
    rest:
      - resourceSearch
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/resource_search (query)
  - name: get_site_status
    description: Report the catalogue's live CKAN version and enabled extensions.
    rest:
      - statusShow
    inputSchema_source: GET /action/status_show