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AmuseAlot Museum Tech Newsletter August 26, 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 103 Active Orgs 24 New Repos 31 Releases 5 News 👀 Spotlight iiif-manifest-editor Digirati The repository merges pull request #406, applying the 2.2.0‑fixes to the IIIF Manifest Editor, and pull request #405, completing the 2.2.0 release. The update bundles bug fixes and minor improvements that accompany the new 2.2.0 version, preparing the editor for continued use in creating and editing IIIF manifests. View on GitHub 🚀 Releases blacklight Blacklight (Discovery)  · Ruby  · ★ 792 Blacklight 8.13.0 backports revisions from 9.x, adds Ruby 3.4 support, updates Solr support to version 10, and aligns generated Solr configs with BL9. smartcompanion-library  · @smartcompanion/ui@1.0.2 SmartCompanion Audioguide universalviewer  · v4.4.4 Universal Viewer ol-mapbox-style  · v13.4.3 OpenLayers etda_workflow  · v1.35.37 Penn State University Libraries etda_explore  · v0.2.8 Penn State University Libraries ecodices-panoptes  · v0.0.5 Loghi (HTR Tooling) textannoviz  · v1.10.1 Loghi (HTR Tooling) 🔥 Most Active Repos 1. ForestGEO  — Smithsonian 638 commits, 300 files changed 2. convert-a-card  — britishlibrary 150 commits, 300 files changed 3. mhdbdb-tei-only  — DigitalHumanitiesCraft 1 commit, 300 files changed 4. data-export  — SemanticLab 1 commit, 271 files changed 5. teiCrafter  — DigitalHumanitiesCraft 1 commit, 240 files changed 🤖 Notable Pushes iiif-manifest-editor Digirati  · TypeScript  · ★ 45 Merge of two pull requests addressing fixes and a release for the IIIF Manifest Editor TypeScript project. Meshroom AliceVision  · Python  · ★ 12922 Adds explicit template file handling to the core, UI actions for templates, and test coverage, plus UI indication of opened templates in the graph editor. CCCoreLib CloudCompare  · C++  · ★ 197 Adds new options to constrain scaling during ICP registration in the CCCoreLib library. cairn-standards Open Preservation Foundation melinda-marc-record-merge-reducers-js National Library of Finland ingestion3 Digital Public Library of America iiif-net Digirati CloudCompare CloudCompare opendata National Gallery of Art crsw-data-ingestion-tool King’s Digital Lab convert-a-card The British Library colmap Colmap sul-requests SUL Digital Library Systems graph-editor Linked Data for Production (LD4P) DataDashboard Europeana OSCA-portal Natural History Museum Vienna dfg-viewer Saxony State and University Library (SLUB) awesome-iiif IIIF Consortium universalviewer Universal Viewer dri-app The Digital Repository of Ireland framesense King’s Digital Lab maptiler-sdk-swift MapTiler ADEPT Natural History Museum laji Luomus PhyG American Museum of Natural History collectionspace_migration_tools Lyrasis MDT-PROCON Connections Museum ForestGEO Smithsonian Institution dmg-rest-api Design Museum Gent cdh-ansible Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton SearchWorks SUL Digital Library Systems spanerr Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton LinkedDataHub Knowledge Graph Management System teiCrafter Digital Humanities Craft

📢 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. The Wiki-verse Plugs into ArchivesSpace ArchivesSpace Blog · 2026-08-25 submitted by Regina Carra, City University of New York Introduction Two open-source communities unite in a new plug-in that helps archivists leverage the power of Wikidata in ArchivesSpace. Developed ... From Massive 3D Models to Fast Web Content: The Smithsonian’s Automated 3D Workflow Smithsonian Digitization Program Office · 2026-08-14 From Massive 3D Models to Fast Web Content: The Smithsonian’s Automated 3D Workflow Author RapidPipeline DattoriaM Fri, 08/14/2026 - 13:58 The S... Building a Scalable DSpace 10 Deployment with Containerized Architecture DSpace News · 2026-08-20 Building a Scalable DSpace 10 Deployment with Containerized Architecture Organizations can combine the DSpace platform with modern container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to create an arc... ‘Performing a Systematic Literature Review on the Implementation of the CIDOC CRM in Cultural Heritage CIDOC-CRM Activity · 2026-08-25 ‘Performing a Systematic Literature Review on the Implementation of the CIDOC CRM in Cultural Heritage Ferreira-Lopes, P. and González-Gracia, E. (2025) ‘Performing a Systematic Literatu... The Co-Authored Museum: How Crowdsourced Metadata Drives Museum Patronage Lucidea Library & Museum Blog · 2026-08-12 When museums invite the public to tag, transcribe, and co-author the catalog through their collections management system, they turn passive visitors into invested patrons, advocates, and grant-worthy ... How was this edition? Your feedback helps us improve ★★★★★ Excellent ★★★★☆ Very Good ★★★☆☆ Good ★★☆☆☆ Fair ★☆☆☆☆ Poor

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