AmuseAlot is an automated newsletter that tracks what museums, archives, heritage organizations, and individual researchers are building on GitHub. It monitors 736 sources in 55+ countries and delivers a digest every Wednesday of new projects, releases, and notable development activity.
Every Wednesday, the pipeline scans public GitHub activity from museums, national libraries, archives, heritage boards, and individual developers. It also tracks key museum-tech tools and frameworks (IIIF, Omeka, Blacklight, etc.) to surface important updates in a dedicated "Tool Watch" section. See the full list of tracked sources. The pipeline collects push events, new repositories, and releases, then enriches each event with repository metadata like language, stars, and descriptions.
In addition to GitHub activity, the newsletter curates relevant news articles from cultural heritage organizations, museum technology blogs, and digital preservation sources worldwide. Articles are automatically scored for relevance and the most valuable content is featured in each issue.
An AI model (Llama 3.3 via Groq) reads each event and scores it for relevance to the museum tech community. It assigns a tier (newsworthy, worth a mention, or routine), writes a short summary, and selects a spotlight project for each issue. The summaries you read in the newsletter are AI-generated based on commit messages, release notes, and README files.
The entire pipeline is open source. You can see how it works, suggest improvements, or run your own version: github.com/callestenfelt/amusealot
This project is inspired by heripo-research-radar, an AI-powered newsletter for Korean cultural heritage research.
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