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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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March 11, 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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129
Active Orgs
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54
New Repos
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38
Releases
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14
News
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👀
Spotlight
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corpus-building
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King’s Digital Lab
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The King’s Digital Lab is actively developing its corpus-building project, which enables the creation and management of digital collections, including inscriptions and other historical items. This project matters for the museum community because it provides a reusable framework for building and searching digital corpora, leveraging standards like TEI-XML. Museum professionals and digital humanists can benefit from this project, particularly those working with large collections of textual artifacts. By adding features like faceted search and pagination, the King’s Digital Lab is making it easier for researchers to explore and analyze these collections.
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openenv-course
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Jupyter Notebook
· ★ 4
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Hugging Face has created a new repository for a course on building RL environments with OpenEnv, which is a framework for building reinforcement learning environments.
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maplibre-agent-skills
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MapLibre
· JavaScript
· ★ 19
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MapLibre has created a new repository for community-maintained agent skills for MapLibre GL JS, which is a framework for building geospatial applications.
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wkpb
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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RAG-Tests
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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ocaml-ortools
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Inria - Cultural Heritage
· C++
· ★ 2
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Inria released v9.15.0-1 of their ocaml-ortools repository, which includes the Google OR-Tools source and a rewritten interface in C++ for improved performance.
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rs.tdwg.org
· 2026-03-10
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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rdf2marc
· v1.225.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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feed
· feed_v1.14.4
HathiTrust Digital Library
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oai_solr
· v1.3.5
HathiTrust Digital Library
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sinopia_api
· v1.224.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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openlime
— gu-gridh
1 commit,
300 files changed
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ai_alt_text
— ClevelandMuseumArt
1 commit,
300 files changed
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corpus-building
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King’s Digital Lab
· Svelte
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King’s Digital Lab added load more functionality and pagination to their corpus-building project. This feature is reusable and of high interest to museum professionals working with digital collections.
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knowledge-base
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DARIAH-EU
· TypeScript
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DARIAH-EU added persons endpoints to their knowledge base, which could be a significant update for users of the knowledge base.
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to.science.api
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North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
· Java
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The to.science API repository has seen updates that include the creation of symbolic links for log files and text analyses, which could enhance the functionality and usability of the API for managing electronic documents and bibliographic data. These changes are likely to be of interest to institutions using or considering the to.science API.
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kepler.gl
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Kepler.gl
· TypeScript
· ★ 11626
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The Kepler.gl organization pushed a new release (0.4.0rc1) of the kepler-jupyter feature, a significant update to the geospatial analysis tool.
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ai_alt_text
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Cleveland Museum of Art
· Python
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The Cleveland Museum of Art's ai_alt_text repository had a push to the main branch with a commit that added more revised descriptions for AI-generated alt text. This update is highly relevant to museum professionals working on accessibility and AI projects.
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LinkedDataHub-Apps
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· XSLT
· ★ 13
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The AtomGraph repository updated their LinkedDataHub-Apps with a large number of commits, including refactoring of data import scripts and installation scripts. This tool may be of high interest to other museums working with linked data and knowledge graphs.
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via
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Visual Geometry Group (VGG)
· JavaScript
· ★ 236
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The via repository has been updated with a large number of commits, including new features, bug fixes, and a new release, version 2.0.11, which includes improvements to image annotation and import/export functionality.
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dpo-packrat
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Smithsonian Institution
· TypeScript
· ★ 11
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The Smithsonian Institution's dpo-packrat repository received a significant update, adding a full project authentication system and health monitoring.
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LinkedDataHub
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· XSLT
· ★ 601
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The LinkedDataHub repository has been updated with a large number of commits, including new features and bug fixes, and a new release, version 5.3.0.
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skills
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
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openlime
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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rppd
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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nmaahcmm
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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mkvnote
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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feed
HathiTrust Digital Library
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librml
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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openseadragon
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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limetrans
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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muse
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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babel
HathiTrust Digital Library
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to.science
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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Saint_Sophia
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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PixelWall
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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website
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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bibdata
Princeton University Library
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podman-omeka-s
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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queerlit-gui
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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Blacklight
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Blacklight
The Blacklight repository had a push to the main branch with two commits that applied consistent formatting to Solr configurations. This update is relevant to museum professionals using Blacklight for discovery interfaces.
View on GitHub
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MapLibre GL
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MapLibre GL
The MapLibre GL repository had a push to the main branch with a single commit that bumped the JavaScript version to 5.20.0. This update is somewhat relevant to museum professionals using interactive maps.
View on GitHub
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IIIF
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Annotorious
The Annotorious repository, a technology used in the museum sector for image annotation, received a minor TypeScript fix. This update is routine and does not significantly impact museum technology.
View on GitHub
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