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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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February 17, 2026
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An AI-curated digest of what museums, archives, heritage organizations, and
individual researchers are building on GitHub — plus curated news from the cultural heritage sector — delivered every Wednesday.
Tracking 736 sources in 55+ countries.
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This Week in Numbers
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736
Sources
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55
Countries
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91
Active Orgs
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11
New Repos
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42
Releases
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4
News
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Spotlight
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dsp-api
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Cooperative Information Systems
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The DaSCH Service Platform API is releasing version 34.3.0, which enhances the platform's capabilities for humanities research and data management. This update matters for the museum community as it provides improvements to data export and import, as well as bug fixes that ensure accurate resource counting and preservation of value ordering. Institutions involved in digital humanities and cultural heritage projects can benefit from this release, which aims to support the management and sharing of complex data and ontologies.
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arche-iiifimage
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Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
· PHP
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The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities releases a new IIIF Image API 3.0 implementation, providing a dissemination service for the ARCHE Suite.
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place-attestation-ontology
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Recogito (Pelagios)
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Pelagios introduces a new ontology for representing historical place knowledge as attestations, enabling more nuanced and provenanced representations of place.
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See all 7 new repositories in the full edition
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dsp-api
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Cooperative Information Systems
· Scala
· ★ 76
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The DaSCH Service Platform released version 34.3.0 of the dsp-api repository, which includes deprecations, maintenances, and enhancements to the API.
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network-of-terms
· @netwerk-digitaal-erfgoed/network-of-terms-status@20260216091431-78e98b0
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
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dsp-das
· v12.6.0
Cooperative Information Systems
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DVV
· v2.3.1
Library of Congress
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See all 15 releases in the full edition
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laji
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Luomus
· TypeScript
· ★ 9
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Luomus updated their laji repository, which is a frontend for the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility data portal, with several commits that improve functionality and user experience. This update demonstrates high relevance to museum professionals and reusability.
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collectionspace_migration_tools
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Lyrasis
· Ruby
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Multiple commits to the lyrasis/collectionspace_migration_tools repository, including new features and refactorings for CollectionSpace migration tools.
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emt-static
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Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
· XSLT
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Multiple updates to the emt-static repository, including fixes and features for PDF processing and error handling. High relevance due to potential reuse in other museum projects.
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format-corpus
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Open Preservation Foundation
· Rich Text Format
· ★ 202
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The Open Preservation Foundation added a new sample file to their format-corpus repository, which is a valuable resource for digital preservation and format identification.
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See all 39 pushes in the full edition
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