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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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May 13, 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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114
Active Orgs
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20
New Repos
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34
Releases
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8
News
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👀
Spotlight
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution is actively developing DPO Voyager, a 3D explorer and tool suite, to enhance the museum community's ability to interact with and showcase 3D digital assets. By addressing issues such as the recent fix for the Draco default URL redirect bug, the project ensures a smoother experience for users. This project matters for the museum community as it provides a valuable tool for the creation and presentation of immersive digital exhibits. Museums and cultural institutions looking to leverage 3D technology can benefit from the ongoing development and refinement of DPO Voyager.
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View on GitHub
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tainacan-oraculo
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Tainacan Project
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The Tainacan Project has created a new repository for an experimental plugin with AI indexing, search, and chat features for Tainacan data. This repository has high potential for reuse in other museums and is highly relevant to museum professionals.
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Repo2RLEnv
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Python
· ★ 3
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The HugginFace Cultural Heritage organization has created a new repository for converting any repository into an RL environment for training and evaluation. This repository has potential for reuse in other museums and is highly relevant to museum professionals interested in AI and machine learning.
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ohm-josm-tag-validator
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Open Historical Map
· Java
· ★ 2
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The Open Historical Map project released an update to their ohm-josm-tag-validator, attaching built JAR files to GitHub releases and fixing previous issues.
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kitodo-presentation
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Kitodo
· JavaScript
· ★ 43
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The Kitodo project released an update to their kitodo-presentation project, fixing bugs and introducing a new debug mode for Fluid template variables.
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idai-field
· v3.7.2
German Archaeological Institute
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grlc
· v1.3.11
CLARIAH Netherlands
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go-embeddings
· v0.4.2
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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backstage
— dbmdz
276 commits,
300 files changed
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crdh
— chnm
185 commits,
300 files changed
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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 repository with new scripts for generating and analyzing AI alt text. This update may be of interest to other museums using AI technology for accessibility purposes.
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kitodo-presentation
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Kitodo
· JavaScript
· ★ 43
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The Kitodo repository had a push event with one commit that fixed a bug related to repository storage PIDs. This is relevant for museums using Kitodo and IIIF.
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AliceVision
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AliceVision
· C++
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The AliceVision organization updated the AliceVision repository, adding initial support for USD format for sfmData. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with 3D computer vision and photogrammetry.
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rs.tdwg.org
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Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
· Jupyter Notebook
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The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) repository has been updated with changes to the Translations documentation, which may be relevant to museum professionals working with biodiversity data and standards. This update is likely to be of interest to those in the field.
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CMD2RDF
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Loghi (HTR Tooling)
· Java
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The CMD2RDF repository has been updated with significant changes to the addOST.xsl file, including the removal of identity copy and improvements to RDF emission. These updates are highly relevant to museum professionals working with RDF and CMD data.
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maplibre-gl-js
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maplibre
· TypeScript
· ★ 10601
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The maplibre/maplibre-gl-js repository received a push to its main branch, including a commit that fixes a benchmark display issue. As MapLibre GL is a technology used in the museum sector, this update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with interactive vector tile maps.
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go-embeddings-harvest
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San Francisco International Airport Museum
· Go
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The San Francisco International Airport Museum updated their go-embeddings-harvest repository with significant changes, including updates to defaults and disabling lastmod checks, which may be of interest to other museums working with data harvesting and embeddings.
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arches-search
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Arches Project
· Python
· ★ 2
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The Arches Project repository had a push event with 19 commits, including work on spatial search and map errors. This could be highly relevant for museums working with spatial data and mapping.
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peripleo
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The British Library
· ★ 28
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The British Library pushed changes to the peripleo repository, including the creation of a draft codemeta.json file and a merge of a pull request. Peripleo is a geodata mapping software, and this repository provides an example configuration for the BL's Locating a National Collection project.
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sipi
Cooperative Information Systems
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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crdh
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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piffle
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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dsp-api
Cooperative Information Systems
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lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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munch
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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podman-omeka-s
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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api
Digital Public Library of America
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trokk
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
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librml
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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naturblick-ios
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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etruscantombs
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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naturblick-android
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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MapLibre GL
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MapLibre GL
The maplibre/maplibre-gl-js repository received a push to its main branch, including a commit that fixes a benchmark display issue. As MapLibre GL is a technology used in the museum sector, this update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with interactive vector tile maps.
View on GitHub
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IIIF
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Aikon
The Aikon platform, a computer vision platform for the Digital Humanities, has received significant updates to its document set view, including the addition of new features such as displaying all matches at once and a spatial frieze tab. These updates demonstrate the platform's ongoing development and potential for use in museum-tech applications, particularly those involving IIIF.
View on GitHub
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