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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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July 29, 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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101
Active Orgs
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14
New Repos
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39
Releases
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9
News
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👀
Spotlight
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arche-curationTools
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Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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The arche-curationTools repository adds a script for normalizing file format extensions. This script is part of a collection of tools for curation tasks such as renaming and collecting metadata. The repository is used for tasks related to the ARCHE platform. The new script consists of 138 lines of code and is committed by bellerophons-pegasus.
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View on GitHub
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pwc-cli
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HugginFace Cultural Heritage
· Python
· ★ 2
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HugginFace created a new repository for a Command-Line Interface to interact with Papers with Code, written in Python. The CLI allows users to search papers, browse benchmarks, and find state-of-the-art results.
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ami
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Nanonets Cultural AI
· TypeScript
· ★ 26
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Nanonets created a new repository for Ami, a local, open-source agent that connects to apps, data, and tools, written in TypeScript. Ami learns how users do tasks and executes busy work on their behalf.
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rpi-pico-card-reader
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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dfg-viewer
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Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
· PHP
· ★ 34
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The Saxony State and University Library's dfg-viewer repository released v8.0.0, which includes new features such as workflow and functionalities to provide DFG-Viewer as a Docker image.
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concordia
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Library of Congress
· Python
· ★ 177
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The Library of Congress' concordia repository released v8.13.0, which includes bug fixes, admin updates, and user interface changes.
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htr2hpc
· 0.7.0
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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stele
· v2.3.0
Science Museum of Minnesota
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otis
· v1.21.2
HathiTrust Digital Library
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rdf2marc
· v1.244.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.244.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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htr2hpc
— Princeton-CDH
142 commits,
38 files changed
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stele
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Science Museum of Minnesota
· JavaScript
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The Science Museum of Minnesota's Stele kiosk application updated Electron from 35 to 43.1.1, fixed imports, and made design updates. Multiple commits also fixed bugs and added features.
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kiba-extend
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Lyrasis
· Ruby
· ★ 7
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The Lyrasis kiba-extend repository added several new features, including FileRegistryEntry.to_h, DynamicSource registry entry type, and NullJob key, and refactored code for better maintainability.
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mlt-warehouse-logistics-service
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Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
· Kotlin
· ★ 1
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The National Library of Norway implemented a system for sub-orders in their mlt-warehouse-logistics-service repository, changing 25 files.
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htr2hpc
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Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
· Python
· ★ 7
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The htr2hpc repository added a new feature to make new CAS accounts inactive by default, and also added devbox configuration for a reproducible development environment. Additionally, the repository was updated to version 0.6.0.
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rppd
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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wolpi
Bavarian State Library
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lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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nwbio
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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munch
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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rpi-pico-card-reader
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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ds-ojs
Columbia University Libraries
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apiary
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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website
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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IIIF
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Aikon
The Aikon repository fixed a weighted score issue when no category is present and merged a pull request related to installation. These changes improve the functionality of the computer vision platform.
View on GitHub
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dezoomify
The dezoomify repository pruned blocked live compatibility targets. Dezoomify is a tool for downloading zoomable images from museum websites and other sources.
View on GitHub
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