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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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March 04, 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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125
Active Orgs
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59
New Repos
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33
Releases
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17
News
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👀
Spotlight
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arches-lingo
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Arches Project
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The Arches Project is actively developing Arches Lingo, an application for authority data management, with recent updates enhancing the user experience and fixing dependencies for front-end tests. This project matters for the museum community as it provides a tool for managing complex authority data, crucial for collection management and digital preservation. Museum professionals responsible for data management and curation can benefit from Arches Lingo's features, such as the ability to create and manage concepts with default values and type tiles. By improving authority data management, Arches Lingo supports the museum community's efforts to maintain high-quality, linked open data.
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legal-history-hub
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Digital Humanities Craft
· JavaScript
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Digital Humanities Craft created a new repository for a legal history hub, featuring a metadata portal and research project.
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AnyType-VPS
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Safecast
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Safecast created a new repository for a multi-agent research mission control system, featuring a coordination protocol for AI research agents.
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searchable-pdf
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Nanonets Cultural AI
· Python
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Nanonets Cultural AI created a new repository for a searchable PDF service, allowing users to convert scanned PDFs to searchable PDFs using the Docstrange API.
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multi-agent-research-mission-control
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Digital Humanities Craft
· JavaScript
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Digital Humanities Craft created a new repository for a project called amplified-edition-pipeline, featuring LLM-assisted workflows for digital scholarly editions.
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vetmed-berichtswesen
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Digital Humanities Craft
· Python
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National Diet Library Lab created a new repository for a project called ndlocr-lite, featuring an application for OCR and document analysis.
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maplibre-agent-skills
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MapLibre
· JavaScript
· ★ 9
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MapLibre created a new repository for community-maintained agent skills for MapLibre GL JS, helping AI coding assistants write better mapping code.
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json_schemer-rails
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SUL Digital Library Systems
· Ruby
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SUL Digital Library Systems created a new repository for a Rails integration with json_schemer, useful for API validation and parameter type casting.
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DoCTA
Digital Humanities Craft
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wkpb
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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mod-ai
Folio (Library Services)
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sipi
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Cooperative Information Systems
· C++
· ★ 36
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The Cooperative Information Systems released an update to their sipi repository, which includes bug fixes for image processing and IIIF-related features. This update may be of interest to museum professionals working with image processing and IIIF.
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DVV
· 3.0.0-beta.4
Library of Congress
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go-net
· v0.0.3
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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rdf2marc
· v1.224.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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babel
· babel_v1.4.18
HathiTrust Digital Library
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sinopia_api
· v1.223.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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5.
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— Vizzuality
93 commits,
167 files changed
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arches-lingo
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Arches Project
· Vue
· ★ 3
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The Arches Project updated their arches-lingo repository with multiple commits, adding new functionality for authority data management, including blank tiles and default values for concept creation.
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opendata
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National Gallery of Art
· Python
· ★ 649
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The National Gallery of Art updated their open data program with new features, including SQL Server direct CSV extraction and the addition of open access columns. These changes improve the accessibility and usability of their data.
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heripo-engine
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Heripo Lab
· TypeScript
· ★ 4
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The Heripo Lab released version 0.1.9 of their Heripo Engine, a TypeScript library for extracting structured data from archaeological excavation report PDFs. This release may be highly relevant to other museums working with archaeological excavation reports.
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LinkedDataHub-Apps
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· XSLT
· ★ 13
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The LinkedDataHub-Apps repository has undergone significant updates, including refactoring of data import scripts, installation, and documentation fixes, which could be of high interest to museums working with linked data and knowledge graphs. These updates may be relevant to museums looking to improve their data management and integration capabilities.
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amalia.js_v2
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Institut national de l'audiovisuel
· TypeScript
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The Institut national de l'audiovisuel released an open-source HTML5 video player with metadata enrichment capabilities. This is a significant development with potential reusability by other museums.
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laji
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Luomus
· TypeScript
· ★ 9
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Luomus updated their laji repository with fixes for annotation forms and updated dependencies. This repository is related to biodiversity informatics and may be of high interest to museums working in this field.
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pdf_accessibility_api
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Penn State University Libraries
· Ruby
· ★ 1
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The psu-libraries/pdf_accessibility_api repository had a push event with nine commits that added features and tests for PDF accessibility. This event is highly relevant to museum professionals, especially those working on accessibility and digital preservation.
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pcl
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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dfg-viewer
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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inscriptions
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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mkvnote
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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pandas4
National Library of Australia
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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babel
HathiTrust Digital Library
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SHFA_Backend
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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plague-game
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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nmaahcmm
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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wkpb
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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documentation
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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go-net
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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IIIF
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Annotorious
The annotorious repository released version 3.7.22, which may include new features or bug fixes for image annotation functionality. This update is relevant to museums using IIIF.
View on GitHub
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