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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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February 18, 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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126
Active Orgs
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65
New Repos
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30
Releases
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7
News
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Spotlight
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popquiz
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is actively developing PopQuiz, a platform that enables users to compare pop culture with their coworkers, highlighting its potential for social engagement and community building in the museum sector. By streamlining deployment automation, refining configuration logic, and enhancing documentation, the project is becoming more robust and user-friendly. Museum professionals and educators can benefit from this project as it offers a unique approach to fostering discussions and interactions around cultural topics. The ongoing development of PopQuiz demonstrates the center's commitment to creating innovative digital tools for the museum community.
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View on GitHub
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pulezviz
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Princeton University Library
· Rust
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Princeton University Library has created a new repository for a tool called PulEzViz, which is an EZproxy log analytics dashboard built with Rust, DuckDB, and Chart.js. The tool provides interactive visualizations for analyzing EZproxy server logs.
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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 has created a new repository for an ARCHE IIIF image dissemination service, which provides a production-ready IIIF Image API 3.0 implementation. The service supports flexible image processing and retrieval.
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specify-iiif-manifest
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The Swedish Museum of Natural History
· Python
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The Swedish Museum of Natural History has created a new repository for a Specify IIIF Manifest Generator, which transforms Specify database exports into IIIF-compliant manifests. The tool provides a robust and configurable way to generate IIIF manifests.
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See all 14 new repositories in the full edition
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collection
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Museum of Modern Art
· ★ 1475
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The Museum of Modern Art has released an update to their collection data, version v2026-02-17, which may include new or updated collection items.
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DVV
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Library of Congress
· ★ 1
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The Library of Congress' Digital Viewer and Validator has been updated to version 2.3.1, which includes improvements to the tool's functionality and user interface.
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dsp-api
· v34.4.1
Cooperative Information Systems
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See all 18 releases in the full edition
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popquiz
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
· HTML
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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media pushed a significant update to their PopQuiz repository, adding deployment automation, documentation, and fixing several issues. This update could be of interest to other museums looking to improve their own digital infrastructure.
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cesium-unreal
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CessiumJS
· C++
· ★ 1138
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Significant update to the cesium-unreal repository, including the addition of statistics descriptions, CesiumPropertyArray cleanup, and UI to gather and display statistics.
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opendata
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National Gallery of Art
· Shell
· ★ 636
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The National Gallery of Art's Open Data Program repository received a new data export. This update could be of significant interest to other museums and researchers looking to access the gallery's collection data.
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periodical-distiller
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Princeton University Library
· Python
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The Princeton University Library's periodical-distiller repository received a push to the main branch with a significant addition of a SIP Compiler, affecting 11 files. This change could be highly relevant to other museums working with METS/ALTO packages and Veridian Presentation Software.
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See all 138 pushes in the full edition
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IIIF
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Annotorious
The Annotorious repository, a tool used in the museum sector for image annotation, had a push to main with a new release (v3.7.20), which is relevant to museum professionals working with digital collections.
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Blacklight
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Blacklight
Blacklight, a discovery interface for Solr indexes, had two commits simplifying fixture path configuration. This update is moderately interesting for museum professionals using Blacklight.
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JavaScript
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OpenLIME
The OpenLIME project, a web-based image viewer, fixed a minimap viewport styling issue. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with digital images and 3D digitization.
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