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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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July 01, 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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105
Active Orgs
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17
New Repos
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17
Releases
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9
News
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👀
Spotlight
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dpo-packrat
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Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution's dpo-packrat repository manages data and workflows for 3D data captures, models, and scenes. It currently supports auxiliary downloads and improves EDAN title handling. The repository is adding over a thousand lines of code across thirty-three files. The update includes version 0.9.42, which introduces these enhancements.
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Bjorn2025
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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typesense
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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wolpi
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Bavarian State Library
· Java
· ★ 16
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The wolpi repository released version 0.3.0, which adds a new config option for selecting the binarization method used for converting to bitonal quality.
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 202
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The DPO Voyager repository released a bug fix release, which fixes bugs firing OnAnnotation triggers and updates the OnTourStep annotation implementation.
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heripo-engine
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Heripo Lab
· TypeScript
· ★ 10
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The heripo-engine repository released version 0.1.39, which adds a table correction toggle and sets MiniMax M3 as the default model.
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quire
· @thegetty/quire-11ty@1.0.0-rc.48
Getty Center
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rdf2marc
· v1.240.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.240.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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dsp-tools
· v18.17.3
Cooperative Information Systems
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sge_plus
— gencat
1 commit,
180 files changed
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data-export
— SemanticLab
1 commit,
166 files changed
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aikon
— Aikon-platform
61 commits,
63 files changed
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dpo-packrat
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Smithsonian Institution
· TypeScript
· ★ 12
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The dpo-packrat repository released version 0.9.42, adding auxiliary download support and EDAN title improvements. This update enhances the data repository and workflow management for 3D data captures, models, and scenes.
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nettarkivet-browsertrix
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Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
· JavaScript
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The nettarkivet-browsertrix repository added support for paginated news archive pages. This change enhances the web archiving capabilities of the repository.
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hyrax
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 198
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The Hyrax repository updated to render compound metadata on the FileSet show page, exposed flexible-schema readers on FileSetPresenter, and addressed various review comments. This includes multiple commits to improve the display of compound metadata.
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tido
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Göttingen State and University Library
· TypeScript
· ★ 3
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The tido repository implemented panel synopsis, added hovering for pane/panel synopsis, and fixed several issues including endless loading and clicking at a target with sync annotations. It also updated the EUPT config and optimized the data structure for storing sync annotations.
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aikon
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Aikon-platform
· Python
· ★ 26
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The Aikon repository received updates with numerous improvements to the STEMMA feature, including enhancements to spatial frieze legibility, interactions on image stemma, and allowing any match to be set as an anchor. These updates also included minor improvements and fixes.
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kitodo-presentation
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Kitodo
· JavaScript
· ★ 44
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The kitodo-presentation repository added a feature to split the collection view into two parts - overview and documents list. This change was made by beatrycze-volk.
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artic.edu
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Art Institute of Chicago
· PHP
· ★ 32
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The Art Institute of Chicago's artic.edu repository added a 'title' to TicketedEvent browser search, generated images representing image dimensions, and handled large artworks better. The repository also refactored the Integration controller and simplified YouTube service logging.
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rpb
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North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
· Java
· ★ 1
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The repository received a significant update with 21 commits, primarily focused on setting up a layout for ordering holdings and adding related features. The updates include changes to the user interface, email content, and handling of edge cases.
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pandas4
National Library of Australia
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bom
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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concepts
German Archaeological Institute
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BagItTools
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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camera_cards
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
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strapi-rpb
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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munch
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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fina
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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geniza
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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m3gim
Digital Humanities Craft
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gridh-pages
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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PixelWall
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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babel
HathiTrust Digital Library
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mtu-website
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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sge_plus
Generalitat de Catalunya - Cultura
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Three.js
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Voyager
· v0.63.1
The DPO Voyager repository released a bug fix release, which fixes bugs firing OnAnnotation triggers and updates the OnTourStep annotation implementation.
View on GitHub
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Voyager
· v0.63.0
The DPO Voyager repository released a new version with expanded action and trigger support, including PlayAudio actions and OnTourStep triggers.
View on GitHub
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Voyager
The DPO Voyager repository fixed bugs related to non-robust tour trigger definitions and annotation triggers. These fixes improve the overall functionality of the 3D explorer and tool suite.
View on GitHub
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IIIF
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Aikon
The Aikon repository received updates with numerous improvements to the STEMMA feature, including enhancements to spatial frieze legibility, interactions on image stemma, and allowing any match to be set as an anchor. These updates also included minor improvements and fixes.
View on GitHub
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Blacklight
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