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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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June 24, 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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5
Releases
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10
News
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👀
Spotlight
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catalogue-pipeline
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Wellcome Collection
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The Wellcome Collection is actively refining its catalogue pipeline, a critical service that extracts and transforms data from its museum and collections, making it more accessible and usable for the community. This project matters for the museum community as it enables more efficient data management and sharing, benefiting institutions seeking to improve their own digital platforms. Museum professionals and developers can benefit from this project by learning from its approach to data pipeline management and potentially adapting it for their own needs. By enhancing its pipeline, the Wellcome Collection is contributing to the broader goal of making cultural heritage data more accessible and reusable.
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View on GitHub
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weft
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Digital Humanities Craft
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Digital Humanities Craft has created a new repository for a lightweight, standards-mapped relation ontology that lets LLM agents navigate a human-curated Markdown knowledge vault by meaning rather than flat text. This is highly relevant to museum professionals working with digital humanities and knowledge management.
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cho-monitor
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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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 released version 2.11.9 of their DaSSCo-asset-service, which includes new features such as group creation and asset download indicators, making it a significant update for digital asset management.
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wise
— ox-vgg
61 commits,
129 files changed
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hyrax
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 198
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The Hyrax repository has been updated with significant new features, including linked record compound sub-property type and deposit picker endpoints.
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hyku
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 110
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The Samvera Hyku repository has been updated to aggregate child-work full text from Solr, improving performance and reducing the need for re-derivation from disk. This update enhances the functionality of the Hyku application for multi-tenant repositories.
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LinkedDataHub
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· XSLT
· ★ 622
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The AtomGraph organization updated their LinkedDataHub repository with changes to Fuseki memory limits, heap, and restart policy. This update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with linked data and knowledge graph management systems.
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angular-osf
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Open Science Framework
· TypeScript
· ★ 4
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The Open Science Framework's angular-osf repository has been updated with new features for collection-specific metadata and collection search using Cedar and Shtrove filters. This update is highly relevant to museum professionals working with digital collections and metadata standards.
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dcm_catalog_ui
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Det Kgl. Bibliotek
· XSLT
· ★ 3
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The Det Kgl. Bibliotek's dcm_catalog_ui repository had a push event with nine commits, including fixes for accessibility issues and updates to the user interface. This update may be of significant interest to museum professionals who prioritize accessibility and user experience.
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m3gim
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Digital Humanities Craft
· Python
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Digital archive and mobility research project m3gim updated with significant changes to data processing and visualization, which may be of interest to professionals in digital humanities and cultural heritage.
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mkvnote
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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sipi
Cooperative Information Systems
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OpenEnv
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
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SEKO
National Library of Finland
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feed
HathiTrust Digital Library
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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rdf2marc
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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va-petitions
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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bikube
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
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layup
Smithsonian Institution
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ct-django
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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data_pass
Etalab (French Task Force for Open Data)
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weft
Digital Humanities Craft
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saints
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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Visual Geometry Group (VGG)
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openapc-se
Kungliga biblioteket - National Library of Sweden
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relec-django
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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Blacklight
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Blacklight
The Blacklight repository had a push event with two commits, one of which removed an unused JS linting config. This is a minor update and may not be of significant interest to museum professionals.
View on GitHub
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MapLibre GL
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MapLibre GL
The MapLibre GL JS repository had a push event with a commit that fixed an issue with serializing undefined properties. This update may be of interest to museum professionals who use MapLibre GL JS for interactive maps.
View on GitHub
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IIIF
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Mirador
An update to the Mirador repository, upgrading the node version on Netlify, which is a minor technical update.
View on GitHub
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