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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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May 27, 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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108
Active Orgs
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18
New Repos
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37
Releases
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10
News
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👀
Spotlight
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collection
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Museum of Modern Art
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The Museum of Modern Art is releasing updates to its collection data, making a vast array of artworks and artifacts accessible to the public. This project matters for the museum community because it provides a model for other institutions to share their collections in a similar way, promoting transparency and collaboration. Museums and cultural institutions looking to make their collections more accessible can benefit from MoMA's efforts, as they work to advance the field of digital collection management. By sharing its collection data, MoMA is actively contributing to a more open and interconnected cultural landscape.
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mod-locations
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Folio (Library Services)
· Java
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Folio has created a new repository for a module managing locations and service points. This module is directly relevant to libraries and museums using the FOLIO platform for collection management.
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folio-deps
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Folio (Library Services)
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Folio has created a new repository for Maven dependencies of Java modules in FOLIO flower releases. This repository could be useful for libraries and museums using the FOLIO platform for collection management, especially for tracking dependencies and updates.
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lutilities
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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massi
The Finnish Heritage Agency
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collection
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Museum of Modern Art
· ★ 1519
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The Museum of Modern Art released a new version of their collection data.
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go-edtf
· v1.3.0
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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network-of-terms
· @netwerk-digitaal-erfgoed/network-of-terms-catalog@10.19.22
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
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babel
· babel_v1.4.28
HathiTrust Digital Library
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rdf2marc
· v1.234.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.235.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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backstage
— dbmdz
75 commits,
300 files changed
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shawi-data
— acdh-oeaw
1 commit,
152 files changed
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massi
— finnish-heritage-agency
1 commit,
129 files changed
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data-export
— SemanticLab
1 commit,
121 files changed
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caas-aspace-scripts
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Smithsonian Institution
· Python
· ★ 1
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The caas-aspace-scripts repository had a push event with commits that add a new script and merge pull requests. This is highly relevant to museum professionals working with ArchivesSpace and collection management.
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opendata
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National Gallery of Art
· Python
· ★ 736
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The National Gallery of Art updated their opendata repository with new data exports. This update provides valuable data for museum tech professionals and has high reusability.
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collectionsonline
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The Science Museum Group
· JavaScript
· ★ 48
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The Science Museum Group has made updates to their Collection Online platform, including improvements to the mobile user experience. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with digital collections and online platforms, and may be reusable by other museums.
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cdh-ansible
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Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
· Jinja
· ★ 2
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The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton's cdh-ansible repository, an Ansible playbook repository, received a push to its main branch with multiple commits that added instrumentation for various applications. This update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with digital infrastructure and DevOps.
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Meshroom
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AliceVision
· Python
· ★ 12760
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AliceVision updated their Meshroom repository, introducing significant changes to the node-based visual programming toolbox, including the addition of flow attributes and improvements to the GraphEditor. These updates are highly relevant to museum professionals working with 3D reconstruction and computer vision.
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quire
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Getty Center
· JavaScript
· ★ 147
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The Getty Center has made significant updates to their Quire multiformat publishing framework, including the addition of image transformations and IIIF test conditions. These changes may be of high interest to other museums using Quire or similar technologies.
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digi_diggie
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Humlab Umeå
· PLpgSQL
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The repository humlab/digi_diggie had a push event with multiple commits, including the addition of migration scripts for creating COUNTER primary keys in MS Access and the export of PostgreSQL database tables to TSV files. These changes suggest significant improvements to the application's data management capabilities.
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tainacan-ai
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Tainacan Project
· PHP
· ★ 2
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The Tainacan Project pushed several commits to the tainacan-ai repository, adding features for autofill values, storing different label/values, and creating suggested taxonomy terms. These updates are highly relevant to museum professionals working with Tainacan and AI features.
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DaSSCo-asset-service
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Natural History Museum of Denmark
· Java
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The Natural History Museum of Denmark made significant updates to their DaSSCo-asset-service repository, including bug fixes and new features. These updates may be of interest to other museums using similar digital asset management systems.
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hyrax
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 196
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The Samvera community's Hyrax repository received significant updates, including stripping default locale from URLs and fixing admin set ID queries. These changes improve the repository's functionality and are newsworthy for museum professionals.
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pdfmake
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Wellcome Collection
· JavaScript
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Significant updates to the pdfmake library, including bug fixes, new features, and improvements to rendering and validation.
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dmg-rest-api
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Design Museum Gent
· JavaScript
· ★ 2
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The Design Museum Gent's REST API now includes image fields with IIIF validation and rights metadata, enhancing the accessibility of their collection data. This update is significant for museum professionals interested in IIIF and metadata standards.
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multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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trokk
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
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Koha
National Library of Finland
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metadata
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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go-edtf
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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openapc-se
Kungliga biblioteket - National Library of Sweden
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data_pass
Etalab (French Task Force for Open Data)
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limetrans
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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styleguide
Kungliga biblioteket - National Library of Sweden
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askCO
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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massi
The Finnish Heritage Agency
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librml
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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blastochor
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Leaflet
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Leaflet
The Leaflet organization fixed stale browser-compat guards and comments in the Leaflet repository. As a widely-used mapping technology, this change could be relevant to museum professionals.
View on GitHub
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3D Viewers
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OpenLIME
The OpenLIME repository, a 3D viewer, received a push with a commit adding coordinates for the light sphere controller. This update could be relevant for museum professionals working with 3D digitization.
View on GitHub
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IIIF
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IIIF APIs
The IIIF API repository had a push event with two commits, one fixing links to the model and the other merging a pull request. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with IIIF APIs.
View on GitHub
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Aikon
The Aikon-platform made significant updates to their Aikon computer vision platform, including bug fixes and API updates. These changes may be of interest to museum professionals working with IIIF and digital humanities projects.
View on GitHub
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