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Museum Tech Newsletter
July 29, 2026
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.
This Week in Numbers
736 Sources 55 Countries 101 Active Orgs
14 New Repos 39 Releases 9 News
👀 Spotlight
arche-curationTools
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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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🥚 New Repositories
pwc-cli
HugginFace Cultural Heritage  · Python  · ★ 2
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.
ami
Nanonets Cultural AI  · TypeScript  · ★ 26
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.
rpi-pico-card-reader
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
AIFS-single-2.0-on-all-GPUs
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
kinesis-to-pusher
Zooniverse
thomas-bernhard-online
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
tna-frontend-cookies
The National Archives UK
leeds-library-team
Digirati
static-site-dlcs-trial
Digirati
testcontainers-garage
Folio (Library Services)
grad-handbook
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
angular-osf-playwright
Open Science Framework
🚀 Releases
dfg-viewer
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)  · PHP  · ★ 34
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.
concordia
Library of Congress  · Python  · ★ 177
The Library of Congress' concordia repository released v8.13.0, which includes bug fixes, admin updates, and user interface changes.
MitoPilot  · 1.5.1
Smithsonian Institution
htr2hpc  · 0.7.0
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
manifesto  · v4.3.5
IIIF Commons
stele  · v2.3.0
Science Museum of Minnesota
Primo-NDE-Customization-Package  · v2.0.0
MIT Libraries
sinopia_editor  · v3.17.198
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
entity-management  · entity-management-1.7.10
Europeana
otis  · v1.21.2
HathiTrust Digital Library
tainacan-inventarios  · v.0.2.1
Tainacan Project
rdf2marc  · v1.244.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_api  · v1.244.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_exporter  · v3.236.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_indexing_pipeline  · v2.241.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
arches-he-sysref-funcs  · 1.0.2
Historic England
ils-middleware  · v1.5.27
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
ecodices-panoptes  · v0.0.3
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
iphan-blocksy  · v.1.0.4
Tainacan Project
🔥 Most Active Repos
1. cesium-unreal  — CesiumGS
3 commits, 300 files changed
2. go-flysfo-api  — sfomuseum
1 commit, 300 files changed
3. salut-sistema-disseny  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
4. htr2hpc  — Princeton-CDH
142 commits, 38 files changed
5. plugin-Reports  — omeka
4 commits, 128 files changed
🤖 Notable Pushes
stele
Science Museum of Minnesota  · JavaScript  · ★ 30
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.
kiba-extend
Lyrasis  · Ruby  · ★ 7
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.
mlt-warehouse-logistics-service
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab  · Kotlin  · ★ 1
The National Library of Norway implemented a system for sub-orders in their mlt-warehouse-logistics-service repository, changing 25 files.
htr2hpc
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton  · Python  · ★ 7
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.
arche-curationTools
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
theme-bigpicture
Omeka
openlayers
OpenLayers
data-export
Semantic Lab at Pratt
rppd
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
bdq
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
mirador-canvasnavigation
Bavarian State Library
aikon
Aikon-platform
VulnToolkit
Smithsonian Institution
timeline-ng
Northwestern University Knight Lab
kdl-digital-accessibility
King’s Digital Lab
sul-requests
SUL Digital Library Systems
blender
Blender Foundation
opendata
National Gallery of Art
catalogue-pipeline
Wellcome Collection
climat_guardian
Musée Bolo
theme-emiglio
Omeka
theme-thanksroy
Omeka
theme-centerrow
Omeka
theme-berlin
Omeka
plugin-Reports
Omeka
collectionspace_migration_tools
Lyrasis
mangrove-atlas
Vizzuality
digital-preservation
Digirati
lito-valet
Columbia University Libraries
wolpi
Bavarian State Library
colmap
Colmap
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl
ochre-sdk
UCHI Digital Culture WebDev
veidemann
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
ohm-deploy
Open Historical Map
ecodices-panoptes
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
manifesto
IIIF Commons
StoryMapJS
Northwestern University Knight Lab
iphan-blocksy
Tainacan Project
lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
nwbio
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
RDFa-Editor
Knowledge Graph Management System
mirador
Mirador Viewer
dezoomify
lovasoa
training
IIIF Consortium
heripo-research-radar
Heripo Lab
go-sfomuseum
San Francisco International Airport Museum
Mass-Digitizer
Natural History Museum of Denmark
plos-components
Public Library of Science
nodel-recipes
Museums Victoria
saints-frontend
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
janeway
Public Library of Science
researchspace
ResearchSpace
SearchWorks
SUL Digital Library Systems
naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
dataset-knowledge-graph
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
arches-catalog
Arches Project
vizzhub
Vizzuality
hathitrust_catalog_indexer
HathiTrust Digital Library
kitodo-production
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
colmap.github.io
Colmap
pulfalight
Princeton University Library
schema-profile
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
tainacan
Tainacan Project
LinkedDataHub
Knowledge Graph Management System
llm-newsletter-kit-core
Heripo Lab
CanopyCalliopeServer
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
identifier-services-ui-public
National Library of Finland
knowledge-base
DARIAH-EU
stripes-testing
Folio (Library Services)
bird-identification
Luomus
legal-modernism
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
algorithmic-justice
King’s Digital Lab
cdh-ansible
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
global-rangelands-data-platform
Vizzuality
kunstcollecties-etl
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
digital-collections
UPenn Libraries
donnees-ouvertes
Ministère de la Culture
salut-sistema-disseny
Generalitat de Catalunya - Cultura
multimodal-viewer
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
princeton_ansible
Princeton University Library
service-huc-editor
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
vocab.performing-arts.ch
SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
ingest-wikimedia
Digital Public Library of America
safecast-new-map
Safecast
openaccess
Cleveland Museum of Art
finding_aids
UPenn Libraries
Data_Catalog_Spatial_Boundaries
Open-Source Photogrammetry
ds-kaltura
Det Kgl. Bibliotek
munch
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
kinesis-to-pusher
Zooniverse
webval
King’s Digital Lab
tido
Göttingen State and University Library
tainacan-inventarios
Tainacan Project
rpi-pico-card-reader
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
ds-ojs
Columbia University Libraries
transformers-ci
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
mocodigi
Luomus
apiary
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
maptiler-sdk-kotlin
MapTiler
maptiler-sdk-swift
MapTiler
scholarslab.github.io
UVA Scholars Lab
website
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
🔧 Tool Watch
IIIF
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.
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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.
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📢 Cultural Heritage News
Not from GitHub, but still relevant. These articles are picked from cultural heritage and museum sources across Europe, then rated for relevance and translated to English when needed. AI can make mistakes — always check the original source if something is important.
Resource: Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy
Digital Humanities Now · 2026-07-22
Editors’ Summary: In “Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy,” a Spanish-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Douglas McRae shows researchers how to start a Tropy project to ...
AI Futures: The Cost of Doing Nothing
American Alliance of Museums · 2026-07-28
This is the third entry in CFM’s summer series on the perils and promise of artificial intelligence. Having bounced from one side of the Cone of Plausibility—an optimistic future—to the other—an AI dy...
Meet DuraCloud Preserve, A Streamlined New Version of our Long-Term Preservation Software
Lyrasis · 2026-07-23
DuraCloud is an open-source digital preservation software originally developed by DuraSpace and maintained by Lyrasis since 2019. It originated in 2009 between the Library of Congress National Digital...
Training Announcement: Configuring and Customizing the ArchivesSpace Staff User Interface, September 22, 2026
ArchivesSpace Blog · 2026-07-15
Dear ArchivesSpace users,  ArchivesSpace will be offering our next community-wide training on Configuring and Customizing the ArchivesSpace Staff User Interface on September 22, 2026, from 12pm-3...
Expanding the Role of Archives: From Access to Engagement
Lucidea Library & Museum Blog · 2026-07-20
Archives are shifting from access to engagement. See how research support, digital tools, and preservation infrastructure define the new archival role. Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Digital Preservation Coalition · 2026-07-28
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined the Coalition as its newest Associate Member. The United States Holocaust ...
Travelling surfaces – Part 2: reconstructing a Korean palace interior
V&A Museum Blog · 2026-07-27
Archaeologists often describe excavation as reading layers of time. Wallpaper restoration feels remarkably similar. Each sheet removed reveals another beneath it, preserving another moment in its hist...
Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition
Internet Archive Blog · 2026-07-22
Just as printed letters can be scanned and converted into digital text, emerging technology can transform sheet music into sound. A new effort is underway to use optical music recognition […]
OntoPortal Workshop 2026: Exploring Semantic Technologies for Interoperable and FAIR Data
CODATA Blog · 2026-07-15
The CDIF4EOSC, CDIF, CODATA and wider data stewardship communities are invited to participate in the public online session of the OntoPortal Workshop 2026, which will take place on 23 September 2026 f...
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