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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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August 12, 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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18
New Repos
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24
Releases
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10
News
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👀
Spotlight
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apis-bibsonomy
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Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities' apis-bibsonomy repository is a Django app that enables linking data to Zotero. It releases version 0.15.0, updating its capabilities. This release includes changes to three files, with 34 additions and two deletions. The repository is actively being updated, with the latest push to the main branch.
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sharc-exhibition-copy
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King’s Digital Lab
· HTML
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The kingsdigitallab/sharc-exhibition-copy repository is a static copy of the SHARC exhibition site, generated using a Python tool that scrapes the original site and preserves its content, including IIIF images and navigation. It is designed to work offline.
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socialwarc
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National Library of Australia
· Java
· ★ 2
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The nla/socialwarc repository is a Java tool for working with social media web archive data, including searching and capturing Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter posts in WARC files. It provides a way to process and analyze social media data.
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geocoder
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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agent-skills
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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heripo-engine
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Heripo Lab
· TypeScript
· ★ 11
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The heripo-lab/heripo-engine repository released v0.1.42, which includes a new feature for defaulting to GPT-5.6 Luna and updates pricing.
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geocoder
· v0.9.1
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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go-database
· v0.0.20
San Francisco International Airport Museum
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5.
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wise
— ox-vgg
115 commits,
184 files changed
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blender
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Blender Foundation
· C++
· ★ 19675
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The repository fixed an issue with Grease Pencil where defgroup names were not transferred when pasting. The fix addresses issue #162316.
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iiif-helpers
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IIIF Commons
· TypeScript
· ★ 5
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The iiif-helpers repository underwent significant changes with 64 commits, including initial compatibility with types, fixed types, and updated preview package. The repository also saw the introduction of Vault3 and Vault4 classes.
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wise
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Visual Geometry Group (VGG)
· Python
· ★ 7
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The wise repository added several features, including query time measurement, cprofile context manager, and utility functions for compiling statements and running database operations in bulk. These updates improve the search engine's performance and functionality.
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kepler.gl
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Kepler.gl
· TypeScript
· ★ 11961
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The keplergl/kepler.gl repository added a Google Drive cloud storage provider in the demo app as part of issue #3623.
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relec-django
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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pcl
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
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concepts
German Archaeological Institute
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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corppa
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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sge_plus
Generalitat de Catalunya - Cultura
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
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.github
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
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adho-status
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
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to.science
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
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MapLibre GL
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MapLibre GL
MapLibre GL JS fixed a bug to keep the raster fade timer when reloading a tile that has data. The fix is part of a single commit.
View on GitHub
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Blacklight
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Blacklight
The Blacklight repository updated JsonValue#cast to qualify ::String, allowing :json type to parse JSON. This change was merged in pull request #3886.
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IIIF
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