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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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June 10, 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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103
Active Orgs
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13
New Repos
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34
Releases
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11
News
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👀
Spotlight
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lod-gateway
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Getty Center
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The Getty Center is releasing version 2.9.0 of the LOD Gateway, a Linked Open Data document store that enables fast and reliable data storage and query features. This update matters for the museum community because it adds support for the LDP W3C specification, making it easier for institutions to manage and share their linked open data. Museums and cultural heritage organizations can benefit from this project by leveraging its integrated graph expansion and associated graph storage and graph query features to enhance their own data management and sharing capabilities. The Getty Center's ongoing development of the LOD Gateway is making a significant impact on the museum tech community.
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View on GitHub
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ldv-talk-to-your-data-test
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Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
· HTML
· ★ 1
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A new repository for a web application that translates natural language queries to SPARQL queries, which could be useful for museums working with linked data.
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jdh
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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GJMnasT
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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lod-gateway
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Getty Center
· Python
· ★ 12
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The Getty Center released version 2.9.0 of their LOD Gateway, which includes support for the LDP W3C specification and container API support.
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universalviewer
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Universal Viewer
· TypeScript
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The Universal Viewer released version 4.4.0, which includes new features such as a menu for canvas choice and an upgrade to OpenSeadragon 6.
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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 0.19.0 of their go-embeddingsdb package, which includes a new feature for signing records using AWS ACM records.
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mkvnote
· v1.0.0
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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janeway
— PLOS
216 commits,
153 files changed
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backstage
— dbmdz
18 commits,
157 files changed
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IIIF
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SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
· Jupyter Notebook
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The SAPA Foundation's IIIF repository received a push with additions to IIIF video manifest guidelines and Karl Walser manifest generation. This update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with IIIF and digital preservation.
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iiif-presentation-api
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Europeana
· Java
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The Europeana IIIF Presentation API repository has undergone significant updates, including improvements to manifest generation and canvas logic, which could enhance the presentation of digital collections.
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lobid-gnd
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North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
· JavaScript
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The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center's lobid-gnd repository received a push with commits related to authority control and Linked Open Data, which is highly relevant to museum professionals working with similar data and standards. The addition of person properties from agrelon.rdf is particularly noteworthy.
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universalviewer
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Universal Viewer
· TypeScript
· ★ 559
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The UniversalViewer/universalviewer repository has been significantly updated with new features, including a basic choice menu and layers icon, which could be highly relevant to museum professionals working with digital collections.
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lod-gateway
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Getty Center
· Python
· ★ 12
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The Getty Center's LOD Gateway repository had a push event with eight commits, adding authentication features for SPARQL queries and fixing related issues. These changes seem significant for linked open data and museum tech.
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linked.art
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Linked Art
· Python
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Linked Art updated their linked.art repository with new features and mappings, including tables and event data from the Rijksmuseum.
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collections-online
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Museums Victoria
· C#
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Museums Victoria made significant updates to their collections online repository, including new search functionality and authentication improvements.
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ahs-voices
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
· HTML
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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media made significant updates to their Omeka theme for the Arlington Voices project, including improvements to image handling, mobile responsiveness, and mapping module support. These changes could be of significant interest to other museums working with Omeka or similar digital collection platforms.
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ground-control-frontend
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Institut national de l'audiovisuel
· TypeScript
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The Institut national de l'audiovisuel's ground-control-frontend repository underwent a comprehensive system overhaul, including updates to media annotations, plugin architecture, UX, and security. This significant update may be of interest to other museums and institutions.
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mkvnote
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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camera_cards
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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wikidatalab
Kungliga biblioteket - National Library of Sweden
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gemu
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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homebrew-nmaahcmm
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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chat-ui
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
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SHFA_Backend
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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InfraMig
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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SRA
Kyoto University Digital Humanities
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GCREW
Smithsonian Institution
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.github
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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IIIF
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Aikon
The Aikon platform, a computer vision tool for Digital Humanities, has been updated with a migration fix from Regions to RegionExtraction and a refactor of regions. This update may be of interest to museum professionals using IIIF-compatible tools for digital humanities projects.
View on GitHub
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Annotorious
The annotorious/annotorious repository has been updated with a new release (v3.8.4), which is a notable update to a widely-used IIIF annotation tool.
View on GitHub
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