Show HN: Academic Ancestry

Category: other

Tags: academic-genealogy, mcp, orcid, knowledge-graph, ai-agents

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 3, Utility: 5)

Academic Ancestry is a web service that maps academic lineages—who taught whom—and exposes this as an MCP connector so AI assistants can query advisor-advisee relationships. It integrates with ORCID/Google/GitHub for identity, making it easy for researchers to explore academic ancestry via natural language. The concept is novel but the documentation is sparse.

Target audience: academics, researchers, AI assistant users

Repository: https://academicancestry.org/

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