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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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April 01, 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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110
Active Orgs
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21
New Repos
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23
Releases
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12
News
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👀
Spotlight
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go-embeddingsdb
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San Francisco International Airport Museum
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The San Francisco International Airport Museum is actively developing the go-embeddingsdb project, an opinionated Go package for storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings. This tool matters for the museum community because it enables the efficient management of complex data, such as digital collections and artifacts. Museums and cultural institutions can benefit from this project by leveraging its capabilities to improve their data analysis and retrieval processes. The latest release, version 0.6.0, introduces a new RemoveRecord method, enhancing the package's functionality and usability.
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hf-inference
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Python
· ★ 1
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage created a new repository called hf-inference, a CLI extension for running inference with Hugging Face Inference Providers.
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grout
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Rust
· ★ 10
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage created a new repository called grout, a testbed for LLM inference with cutile-rs.
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siaf
Ministère de la Culture
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go-embeddingsdb
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San Francisco International Airport Museum
· Go
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The San Francisco International Airport Museum released version 0.6.0 of their go-embeddingsdb package, adding a RemoveRecord method to the database and client interfaces.
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tiny-iiif
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Rainer Simon
· TypeScript
· ★ 60
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Rainer Simon released version 0.2.0 of their tiny-iiif package, adding automatic conversion of uploaded images to pyramidal TIFF and a basic manifest editor.
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ckanext-nhm
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Natural History Museum
· Python
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The Natural History Museum released version 7.6.0 of their ckanext-nhm package, adding a discovery layer to external links and fixing issues with link duplication.
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arches-her
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Historic England
· HTML
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Historic England released version keystone-1.3.0 of their arches-her package, rebranding and updating the signin and password pages.
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arches
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Historic England
· Python
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Historic England released version keystone-1.3.0 of their arches package, rebranding and updating the signin and password pages.
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rdf2marc
· v1.227.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.226.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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janeway
— PLOS
84 commits,
101 files changed
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StaDocGen
— tdwg
1 commit,
96 files changed
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tiny-iiif
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Rainer Simon
· TypeScript
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Rainer Simon released version 0.2.0 of their tiny-iiif package, adding automatic conversion of uploaded images to pyramidal TIFF and a basic manifest editor.
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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 updated their AI alt text project, modifying scripts to write final captions to files even if they don't meet a certain threshold, which could improve accessibility.
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Europeana-Cloud
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Europeana
· Java
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The Europeana organization updated the Europeana-Cloud repository with multiple commits focused on refactoring and improving the organization of data and tasks. This update seems significant for Europeana's cloud infrastructure.
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lod-gateway
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Getty Center
· Python
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The LOD Gateway repository had a push to the main branch, which included multiple commits to add features and fix issues. These updates may be relevant to museum professionals working with Linked Open Data and graph storage.
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DanSpecify
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Natural History Museum of Denmark
· HTML
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The DanSpecify repository, related to the Danish instance of the Specify database system, has been updated with fixes and adjustments to support collections digitization and management. These updates are relevant to museum professionals working with Specify and collections management.
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tiny-iiif
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Rainer Simon
· TypeScript
· ★ 60
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The rsimon/tiny-iiif repository had a new release, v0.2.0, which may be of interest to museum professionals working with IIIF and image APIs. This update has potential for reusability and newsworthiness.
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audioguide-app
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SmartCompanion Audioguide
· TypeScript
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The SmartCompanion Audioguide App improved its offline support with service worker and related tests, which could be valuable for other museums and cultural institutions looking to enhance their visitor experiences. This update demonstrates the app's ongoing development and commitment to user experience.
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aic-mobile-ios
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Art Institute of Chicago
· Swift
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The Art Institute of Chicago updated their mobile app to use SwiftUI for the Audio screen and improved localization. This change enhances the app's user experience and demonstrates the museum's commitment to modernizing their technology.
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LinkedDataHub-Apps
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· Shell
· ★ 13
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Multiple updates to the LinkedDataHub-Apps repository, including demo content updates, package additions, and bug fixes, indicating active development and maintenance.
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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naturblick-ios
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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naturblick-android
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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OpenAtlas
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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muse
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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podman-omeka-s
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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lobid-vocabs
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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SHFA_Backend
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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m3gim
Digital Humanities Craft
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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Vireo
TAMU Digital Scholarship
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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ds-ojs
Columbia University Libraries
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bibdata
Princeton University Library
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mkvnote
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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ai
Swiss Federal Archives
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StaDocGen
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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sustainable_policies
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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IIIF
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Annotorious
The Annotorious repository, a tool for image annotation, was updated with a single commit to normalize rectangle rotation, addressing issue #344.
View on GitHub
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3D Viewers
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OpenLIME
The OpenLIME repository, a web-based advanced image viewer, has been updated to run computations in linear space for RTI. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with 3D and advanced imaging technologies.
View on GitHub
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Three.js
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Voyager
· v0.60.1
The Smithsonian released a bug fix release for their dpo-voyager package, fixing a CSS issue.
View on GitHub
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Voyager
The Smithsonian updated the DPO Voyager repository, which is a 3D explorer and tool suite. The updates include a CSS overflow fix and a version increment.
View on GitHub
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Blacklight
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Blacklight
The Blacklight repository, a discovery interface for Solr indexes, updated to use CSS logical properties. While this change may improve the user interface, its impact on museum professionals may be limited unless they are heavily invested in Blacklight and Solr technologies.
View on GitHub
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