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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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August 05, 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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107
Active Orgs
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20
New Repos
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34
Releases
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11
News
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👀
Spotlight
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kitodo-production
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Kitodo
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Kitodo.Production releases version 3.9.3, a bugfix release that resolves several bugs and updates dependencies to address potential security issues. This release fixes issues such as duplicate LTP validation configuration retrieval and regular expressions with DoS vulnerability. It also filters out inactive projects in desktop view and updates OmniFaces to the latest bugfix version. The release includes several other fixes and updates, as detailed in the changelog.
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View on GitHub
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First-Principles-of-the-Web
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Knowledge Graph Management System
· JavaScript
· ★ 1
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AtomGraph created a new repository called First-Principles-of-the-Web, a book that derives web application architecture from the web's own specifications. The book discusses the uniqueness of the derived architecture and provides examples.
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ge-120-software
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 203
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The Smithsonian released a new version of DPO Voyager, which includes support for Kintsugi 3D models and new features such as alternate measurement markers.
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place-attestation-ontology
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Recogito (Pelagios)
· ★ 1
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The Recogito project released v0.1.0 of the Place Attestation Ontology, which models historical place knowledge as attestations and includes a data model and namespace.
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stele
· v2.3.1
Science Museum of Minnesota
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dsp-api
· v37.5.2
Cooperative Information Systems
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babel
· babel_v1.4.35
HathiTrust Digital Library
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rdf2marc
· v1.245.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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sinopia_api
· v1.245.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
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go-database
— sfomuseum
2 commits,
300 files changed
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CatalogService
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TAMU Digital Scholarship
· Java
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TAMU Digital Scholarship improved error handling in their Catalog Service, including fixing BibId error logging and providing API response payloads with proper HTTP status codes. They also added HoldingsRequestError to handle more problems.
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AliceVision
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AliceVision
· C++
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The AliceVision repository made several changes, including moving the huberLoss as a parameter, propagating surveyPoints in imageMatching, and adding a new policy for next best view using sequences. A pipeline for camera tracking with lidar was also added.
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hyku
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 109
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Hyku fixed an issue with loading child works to find a parent's file sets, improving performance by avoiding an N+1 query problem.
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lobid-resources
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North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
· Java
· ★ 13
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The hbz/lobid-resources repository added indexing, display, and web tests for manufacture data, and made related adjustments and cleanups.
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 203
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The dpo-voyager repository added more 3D representations of measurement tools, preliminary Kintsugi support, and translation support for the Tamil language. The changes enhance the 3D explorer and tool suite.
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sipi
Cooperative Information Systems
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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cdh-web
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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mod-email
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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stele
Science Museum of Minnesota
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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ai
Swiss Federal Archives
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ge-120-software
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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atc
Columbia University Libraries
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podlake
SUL Digital Library Systems
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librml
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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limetrans
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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gemu
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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lbz-vocabs
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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naturblick-ios
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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website
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
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kernels
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
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PhyG
American Museum of Natural History
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expo-sync
Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg
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IIIF
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dezoomify
The dezoomify repository added support for JPEG Seadragon tile URLs. This update enables users to download zoomable images from more sources.
View on GitHub
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Three.js
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Voyager
· v0.64.0
The Smithsonian released a new version of DPO Voyager, which includes support for Kintsugi 3D models and new features such as alternate measurement markers.
View on GitHub
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Voyager
The dpo-voyager repository added more 3D representations of measurement tools, preliminary Kintsugi support, and translation support for the Tamil language. The changes enhance the 3D explorer and tool suite.
View on GitHub
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