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Museum Tech Newsletter
August 12, 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
18 New Repos 24 Releases 10 News
👀 Spotlight
apis-bibsonomy
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
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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🥚 New Repositories
sharc-exhibition-copy
King’s Digital Lab  · HTML
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.
socialwarc
National Library of Australia  · Java  · ★ 2
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.
rdu-fixed2tab
Cooperative Information Systems
geocoder
San Francisco International Airport Museum
folio-rp-failure-intelligence
Folio (Library Services)
as_arclight_harvard
Harvard Library Technology
speed-networking
Penn State University Libraries
agora-paraguay
Vizzuality
ai4lam2026-workshop-rag
Smithsonian Institution
early-modern-mapathons
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
agent-skills
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
🚀 Releases
heripo-engine
Heripo Lab  · TypeScript  · ★ 11
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.
portal.js  · v2.35.0
Europeana
webdata-warc-explorer  · v0.8.6-beta
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
sinopia_editor  · v3.17.201
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
llm-newsletter-kit-core  · v3.0.2
Heripo Lab
qgis-maptiler-plugin  · v3.6.6
MapTiler
Weaver-Webservice-Core  · 2.2.0
TAMU Digital Scholarship
django-pbsmmapi  · v1.4.2
WGBH Digital Group
heripo-research-radar  · v5.0.2
Heripo Lab
geocoder  · v0.9.1
San Francisco International Airport Museum
go-database  · v0.0.20
San Francisco International Airport Museum
🔥 Most Active Repos
1. collection-data  — mplusmuseum
7 commits, 300 files changed
2. mhdbdb-tei-only  — DigitalHumanitiesCraft
1 commit, 300 files changed
3. salut-sistema-disseny  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
4. go-database  — sfomuseum
1 commit, 300 files changed
5. wise  — ox-vgg
115 commits, 184 files changed
🤖 Notable Pushes
blender
Blender Foundation  · C++  · ★ 19675
The repository fixed an issue with Grease Pencil where defgroup names were not transferred when pasting. The fix addresses issue #162316.
iiif-helpers
IIIF Commons  · TypeScript  · ★ 5
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.
wise
Visual Geometry Group (VGG)  · Python  · ★ 7
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.
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl  · TypeScript  · ★ 11961
The keplergl/kepler.gl repository added a Google Drive cloud storage provider in the demo app as part of issue #3623.
apis-bibsonomy
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
relec-django
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
lss_solr_configs
HathiTrust Digital Library
kitodo-production
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
openseadragon
Open Seadragon
triplestore
Luomus
CloudCompare
CloudCompare
pcl
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
tainacan
Tainacan Project
go-database
San Francisco International Airport Museum
collections-online
Museums Victoria
imagebank
Luomus
SearchWorks
SUL Digital Library Systems
stripes-testing
Folio (Library Services)
maplibre-gl-js
maplibre
artic.edu
Art Institute of Chicago
laji-api
Luomus
omeka-s
Omeka
hyku
Samvera
collectionspace_migration_tools
Lyrasis
concepts
German Archaeological Institute
cul-as-scripts
Columbia University Libraries
tido
Göttingen State and University Library
cesium
CessiumJS
angular-osf
Open Science Framework
mitlib-wp-network
MIT Libraries
mirador
Mirador Viewer
grant_hrcs_tagger
Wellcome Collection
corppa
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
sge_plus
Generalitat de Catalunya - Cultura
mhdbdb-tei-only
Digital Humanities Craft
django-pbsmmapi
WGBH Digital Group
editem-apparatus
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
parser
IIIF Commons
blacklight
projectblacklight
ochre-sdk
UCHI Digital Culture WebDev
faceted-search-react
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
collection-data
M+
annotorious
annotorious
OCR-Salem
UVA Scholars Lab
ekirjasto-circulation
National Library of Finland
statistics-dashboard-backend
Europeana
kitodo-production
Kitodo
inocs-sum-odp-webapp
Inria - Cultural Heritage
earthworks
SUL Digital Library Systems
textannoviz
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
theme-bigpicture
Omeka
theme-seasons
Omeka
theme-thanksroy
Omeka
eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
expo-invoice-generator
Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg
lookup-tables
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
portal.js
Europeana
archivesspace-gokm-scripts
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
IFIPSpecifications
Inria - Cultural Heritage
dariah-campus
DARIAH-EU
multimodal-map
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
data-export-wiki-ttl
Semantic Lab at Pratt
folio-api-dependencies
Folio (Library Services)
si_fundraiseup
Smithsonian Institution
opendata
National Gallery of Art
collectionsonline
The Science Museum Group
PythonOmekaApiToCsv
Omeka
.github
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
idai-field
German Archaeological Institute
file-index
German Archaeological Institute
cul-folio-analytics
Cornell University Library
cudami
Bavarian State Library
editorial_manager_transfer_service
Public Library of Science
First-Principles-of-the-Web
Knowledge Graph Management System
as_arclight_harvard
Harvard Library Technology
finbif-bib
Luomus
ldpd-dcv
Columbia University Libraries
grounded-vault
Digital Humanities Craft
globalise-tools
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
CCCoreLib
CloudCompare
naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
adho-status
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
huc-generic-editor
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
to.science.api
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
to.science
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
hi-sportdb
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
dri-app
The Digital Repository of Ireland
panoptes-react
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
salomo-frontend
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
ds-infrastructure-web
The National Archives UK
knowledge-base
DARIAH-EU
climat_guardian
Musée Bolo
Museomics
Natural History Museum of Denmark
TTServe
Safecast
🔧 Tool Watch
MapLibre GL
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.
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Blacklight
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
Annotorious
The annotorious repository updated its dependencies.
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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.
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS
Lucidea Library & Museum Blog · 2026-08-11
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...
The Four Illusions of AI: Implications for Museum Practice
American Alliance of Museums · 2026-08-10
I introduced our exploration of artificial intelligence with three stories of potential futures, laying the groundwork for a broader exploration of how museums might navigate this swiftly changing lan...
Replacing Legacy Preservation Storage in a HIPAA-Regulated Repository
BitCurator Consortium · 2026-08-10
Replacing Legacy Preservation Storage in a HIPAA-Regulated Repository Historical Collections and Services at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Claude Moore Health relied on a legacy Network-Att...
Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library
Digital Humanities Now · 2026-08-05
Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their new...
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...
Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What We’ve Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood
Internet Archive Blog · 2026-08-05
What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing [&#8...
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.
ArchivesSpace update – July 2026
ArchivesSpace Blog · 2026-07-31
Upcoming schedule at a glance: Registration is now open for November 2 Member Forum in Philadelphia The ArchivesSpace program team is excited to announce that registration is now open for our Member F...
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...
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