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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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June 03, 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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15
New Repos
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29
Releases
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9
News
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👀
Spotlight
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ndlocr-lite
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National Diet Library Lab
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The National Diet Library Lab is actively developing NDLOCR-Lite, an application that supports optical character recognition, by adding support for the webp image format, which enhances the tool's functionality for museum professionals working with digitized collections. This update matters for the museum community as it improves the versatility of NDLOCR-Lite, allowing it to handle a wider range of image formats. Museums and cultural institutions can benefit from this development as they continue to digitize and make their collections more accessible. The addition of webp format support makes NDLOCR-Lite a more valuable resource for institutions looking to leverage optical character recognition technology.
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View on GitHub
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edge-notch-cards-viz
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Semantic Lab at Pratt
· HTML
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The Semantic Lab at Pratt created a new repository called edge-notch-cards-viz, which is an interactive visualization of a digitized edge-notch card deck.
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cadgenbench
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Python
· ★ 1
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage created a new repository called cadgenbench, which is a benchmark for AI-driven CAD generation and editing.
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jobs-actions
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Python
· ★ 5
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage created a new repository called jobs-actions, which allows running GitHub Actions on Hugging Face Jobs.
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 200
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The DPO Voyager repository has released a new version, which includes new features and bug fixes.
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rdf2marc
· v1.235.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.236.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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postexil-site
— DigitalHumanitiesCraft
1 commit,
300 files changed
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backstage
— dbmdz
102 commits,
120 files changed
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data-export
— SemanticLab
1 commit,
121 files changed
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blender
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Blender Foundation
· C++
· ★ 18621
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Twenty-four commits were made to the blender repository, including multiple fixes for crashes in various features.
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opendata
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National Gallery of Art
· Python
· ★ 744
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The National Gallery of Art updated their opendata repository with a new data export. This repository is highly relevant to museum professionals due to its focus on open data and collection information, making the update newsworthy and potentially reusable.
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kepler.gl
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Kepler.gl
· TypeScript
· ★ 11847
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The Kepler.gl repository, a geospatial analysis tool, received a push to its master branch with a patch release 3.3.0-alpha.1. This update may be of significant interest to museum professionals working with large-scale geospatial data sets and data visualization.
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scholarsphere
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Penn State University Libraries
· Ruby
· ★ 13
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The Scholarsphere repository received a significant update with 18 commits, including the implementation of OAWorks services and improvements to permissions and publishing workflows. This update may be of interest to users of the Scholarsphere platform, particularly those working with institutional repositories and open access publishing.
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glimmer
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BAMPFA
· Ruby
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The BAMPFA updated their Glimmer project, a customized implementation of Blacklight for their museum collections. The update includes significant additions, such as search output functionality and fixes for page freezing issues.
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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gemu
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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popquiz
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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dsp-api
Cooperative Information Systems
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pcl
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
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wise
Visual Geometry Group (VGG)
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metadata
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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wolpi
Bavarian State Library
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multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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rCMEM
Smithsonian Institution
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ds-ojs
Columbia University Libraries
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wekb2
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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etruscantombs
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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IIIF
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dezoomify
The dezoomify repository, a tool used for downloading zoomable images from museum websites, had a push to the master branch with a single commit that fixed an issue with Seadragon overlap tile placement. This fix may improve the usability of dezoomify for museum professionals.
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OpenSeadragon
The OpenSeadragon repository, a popular IIIF viewer, received a changelog update for issue #2806. As a widely-used tool in the museum sector, updates to OpenSeadragon are likely to be of interest to museum professionals.
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Aikon
Aikon, a computer vision platform for the Digital Humanities, fixed a migration issue from Regions to RegionExtraction and refactored their code. This update is relevant to museum professionals working with IIIF and computer vision.
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Three.js
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Voyager
· v0.62.0
The DPO Voyager repository has released a new version, which includes new features and bug fixes.
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Voyager
The DPO Voyager repository, a 3D explorer and tool suite, has received several updates including bug fixes and new features such as a transfer pulse animation. These updates may be of interest to museum professionals working with 3D digitization and interactive exhibits.
View on GitHub
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