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Museum Tech Newsletter
August 05, 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 107 Active Orgs
20 New Repos 34 Releases 11 News
👀 Spotlight
kitodo-production
Kitodo
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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🥚 New Repositories
First-Principles-of-the-Web
Knowledge Graph Management System  · JavaScript  · ★ 1
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.
socialwarc
National Library of Australia
tainacan-mapster
Tainacan Project
podlake-web
SUL Digital Library Systems
ge-120-software
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
OSCA-GBIF-DownloadManager
Natural History Museum Vienna
org-actions-provision-runner
The National Archives UK
da-access-design-documentation
The National Archives UK
services
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
early-modern-mapathons
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
special-lecture-pnu-2026-07-diagram
Heripo Lab
special-lecture-pnu-2026-07-preprocessing
Heripo Lab
ohm-website-merged
Open Historical Map
kinesis-to-pusher
Zooniverse
special-lecture-pnu-2026-07-hayoung
Heripo Lab
special-lecture-pnu-2026-07-hongyeon-index
Heripo Lab
Airquality-reporting
Safecast
testcontainers-garage
Folio (Library Services)
🚀 Releases
dpo-voyager
Smithsonian  · JavaScript  · ★ 203
The Smithsonian released a new version of DPO Voyager, which includes support for Kintsugi 3D models and new features such as alternate measurement markers.
place-attestation-ontology
Recogito (Pelagios)  · ★ 1
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.
kitodo-production  · kitodo-production-3.9.3
Kitodo
credits-tools  · v0.2.0
King’s Digital Lab
kepler.gl  · v3.3.0-alpha.6
Kepler.gl
stele  · v2.3.1
Science Museum of Minnesota
sinopia_editor  · v3.17.199
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
dsp-api  · v37.5.2
Cooperative Information Systems
scholarsphere  · v4.65.1
Penn State University Libraries
ckanext-nhm  · v7.8.0
Natural History Museum
babel  · babel_v1.4.35
HathiTrust Digital Library
rdf2marc  · v1.245.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_api  · v1.245.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_exporter  · v3.237.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
sinopia_indexing_pipeline  · v2.242.0
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
tainacan-mapster  · v0.0.1-alpha
Tainacan Project
ils-middleware  · v1.5.28
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
js-sfomuseum-golang-wasm  · v0.0.2
San Francisco International Airport Museum
🔥 Most Active Repos
1. go-database  — sfomuseum
2 commits, 300 files changed
2. openlayers.github.io  — openlayers
1 commit, 300 files changed
3. salut-sistema-disseny  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
4. go-sfomuseum  — sfomuseum
1 commit, 300 files changed
5. go-flysfo-api  — sfomuseum
1 commit, 300 files changed
🤖 Notable Pushes
CatalogService
TAMU Digital Scholarship  · Java  · ★ 1
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.
AliceVision
AliceVision  · C++  · ★ 3467
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.
hyku
Samvera  · Ruby  · ★ 109
Hyku fixed an issue with loading child works to find a parent's file sets, improving performance by avoiding an N+1 query problem.
lobid-resources
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)  · Java  · ★ 13
The hbz/lobid-resources repository added indexing, display, and web tests for manufacture data, and made related adjustments and cleanups.
dpo-voyager
Smithsonian  · JavaScript  · ★ 203
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.
caas_aspace_local
Smithsonian Institution
aspace_custom_reports
Smithsonian Institution
collectionspace_migration_tools
Lyrasis
sipi
Cooperative Information Systems
solr-ocrhighlighting
Bavarian State Library
finding_aids
UPenn Libraries
smm-create-app
Science Museum of Minnesota
heripo-engine
Heripo Lab
socialwarc
National Library of Australia
Finto-data
National Library of Finland
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl
eras
Zooniverse
acq-models
Folio (Library Services)
blender
Blender Foundation
naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
kitodo-presentation
Kitodo
apis-instance-manmax
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
cdh-web
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
OCR-Salem
UVA Scholars Lab
tido
Göttingen State and University Library
mod-email
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
colmap
Colmap
First-Principles-of-the-Web
Knowledge Graph Management System
sul-requests
SUL Digital Library Systems
loghi-tooling
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
object-stories
Harvard Art Museums
stele
Science Museum of Minnesota
eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
hammer-channel
Hammer Museum
awesome-iiif
IIIF Consortium
ai
Swiss Federal Archives
osf.io
Open Science Framework
dezoomify
lovasoa
ge-120-software
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
finbif2gbif
Luomus
standards
CLARIN ERIC
atc
Columbia University Libraries
go-sfomuseum
San Francisco International Airport Museum
go-database
San Francisco International Airport Museum
OSCA-dwc-edm
Natural History Museum Vienna
place-attestation-ontology
Recogito (Pelagios)
manifesto
IIIF Commons
crossreads-petrography
King’s Digital Lab
openlayers
OpenLayers
podlake
SUL Digital Library Systems
maplibre-native-ffi
MapLibre
arches-rascolls
Arches Project
vicav-library
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
knowledge-base
DARIAH-EU
librml
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
front-end-monorepo
Zooniverse
edge-notch-cards-workflows
Semantic Lab at Pratt
geoconverter_2
Luomus
omeka-s
Omeka
dashboard-analytics
Digital Public Library of America
lobid-gnd-ui
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
sea
Europeana
fuseki-docker
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
corpus-building
King’s Digital Lab
lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
SearchWorks
SUL Digital Library Systems
maplibre-native
MapLibre
artic.edu
Art Institute of Chicago
ds-backend
Det Kgl. Bibliotek
indoor-mapping
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
emt-static
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
grad-handbook
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
concordia
Library of Congress
mod-data-export-spring
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
Panoptes-Front-End
Zooniverse
etda_workflow
Penn State University Libraries
data-export
Semantic Lab at Pratt
vam-fractal
Victoria and Albert Museum
tainacan-mapster
Tainacan Project
limetrans
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
editorial_manager_transfer_service
Public Library of Science
sinopia_editor
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
ohm-website-patches
Open Historical Map
gemu
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
theme-foundation
Omeka
timeline-ng
Northwestern University Knight Lab
lbz-vocabs
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
naturblick-ios
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
js-sfomuseum-golang-wasm
San Francisco International Airport Museum
credits-tools
King’s Digital Lab
openlayers.github.io
OpenLayers
DataDashboard
Europeana
exhibits-library-cornell-edu
Cornell University Library
website
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
bird-identification
Luomus
ocaml-ortools
Inria - Cultural Heritage
kernels
HugginFace Cultural Heritage
Museomics
Natural History Museum of Denmark
PhyG
American Museum of Natural History
maptiler-sdk-js
MapTiler
ndlocr-lite
National Diet Library Lab
ochre-sdk
UCHI Digital Culture WebDev
expo-sync
Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg
🔧 Tool Watch
IIIF
dezoomify
The dezoomify repository added support for JPEG Seadragon tile URLs. This update enables users to download zoomable images from more sources.
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Three.js
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
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
📢 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.
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...
AI needs context. Linked data provides.
OCLC Next Blog · 2026-08-03
Artificial intelligence is at the center of today’s technology conversation.  At conferences, in headlines, and across product roadmaps, AI is everywhere. At the same time, linked data, once a major f...
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 […]
Email Archiving Best Practices for Archivists
Lucidea Library & Museum Blog · 2026-08-03
Email is now the primary record of organizational life. Here's how archivists appraise, ingest, preserve, and provide access to email archives, and why it matters. Source
IASA–BAAC 2026 Preliminary Programme Now Available
IASA News · 2026-08-02
The preliminary programme for the IASA–BAAC 2026 Conference is now available! Taking place from 19–22 October 2026 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius, the conference wil...
DPC launches third Technology Watch Guidance Note in Cyber Security series
Digital Preservation Coalition · 2026-07-30
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has launched the final installment in its three-part Technology Watch Guidance Note series on Cyber Security and Resilience for Digital Preservation. Available...
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...
CLIR Receives $5 Million Grant to Launch Fifth Cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices
CLIR - Council on Library & Information Resources · 2026-08-04
August 4, 2026, Alexandria, VA – The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to launch the fifth cycle of its Digitizing Hi...
A GLAM, Culture, and Heritage Roundup for April–June 2026
GLAM-Wiki News · 2026-07-29
Spring 2026 was a particularly full season for the GLAM-Wiki movement. Between the April, May, and June issues of This Month in GLAM, dozens of...
Read Now – July 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal
CODATA Blog · 2026-08-04
Title: Automated Retrieval and Analysis of Finnish Cultural Metadata with finna Author: Akewak Jeba, Julia Matveeva, Leo Lahti URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-027 Title: Insects in the Mail, a Qu...
A medieval birthing girdle MS.632
Wellcome Collection · 2026-07-29
An in-depth exploration of the content and use of a 500 year-old birth girdle, guided by medieval researcher Dr Kierri Price.
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