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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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September 02, 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.
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13
New Repos
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85
Releases
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125
Active Orgs
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This week, from the 736 sources we track in 55+ countries.
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cesium-unity
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CessiumJS
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Cesium for Unity is a C# library that brings the 3D geospatial ecosystem into Unity, supporting Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, UWP, and Web builds. Version 1.25.1 adds a fix for a NullReferenceException in CesiumCreditSystem and ensures proper delegate unsubscription to prevent duplicate subscriptions. The release also upgrades the underlying cesium-native dependency from v0.63.0 to v0.64.0, bringing all native improvements into the Unity package.
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cesium-unity
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CessiumJS
· C#
· ★ 533
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Cesium for Unity v1.25.1 adds support for Windows, macOS (including Apple Silicon), Android, iOS, UWP, and Web (Unity 6+). The release includes sample project download instructions and quick‑start guidance via the Unity Package Manager.
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cesium-unreal
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CessiumJS
· C++
· ★ 1232
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Cesium for Unreal v2.29.1 adds binaries for Unreal 5.6, 5.7, and 5.8 across Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS, and updates the underlying cesium‑native library from v0.63.0 to v0.64.0.
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cesium
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CessiumJS
· JavaScript
· ★ 15639
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CesiumJS 1.145 introduces draping of clamped vector‑tile polygons and polylines onto 3D Tiles with a new heightReference option, improves clipping polygon quality and hole support, and adds an experimental IonSnapService for server‑side snap‑to‑geometry against BIM/CAD assets.
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 203
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Adds an "Enabled" property for actions and new EnableAction/DisableAction types, plus several bug fixes such as platform‑dependent AR button visibility, annotation crash handling, tour step UI fixes, animation alternation, shader loading, and slicerEnabled behavior, plus memory‑management improvements.
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collection
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Museum of Modern Art
· ★ 1538
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Release v2026-08-25 provides an updated snapshot of the Museum of Modern Art collection data.
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smartcompanion-library
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SmartCompanion Audioguide
· TypeScript
· ★ 2
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Adjusted page padding to avoid content being obscured by the Android navigation bar in Ionic WebView, affecting multiple SmartCompanion UI components.
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spoon
· v11.5.1-beta-7
Inria - Cultural Heritage
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mod-oai-pmh
— TAMULib
145 commits,
182 files changed
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angular-osf
— CenterForOpenScience
11 commits,
304 files changed
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sustainability
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
· HTML
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Added AI transcription data for over 15,000 documents, repaired corrupted image lists, and rebuilt the search index.
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dpo-voyager
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Smithsonian
· JavaScript
· ★ 203
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Multiple feature enhancements and bug fixes for the Voyager 3D explorer, including memory cleanup, AR button handling, new action APIs, and UI tweaks.
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embARC
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Library of Congress
· Java
· ★ 12
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Released version 1.4.2 of embARC, a Java tool for embedding and validating metadata in MXF and DPX files, and merged the corresponding pull request.
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decidim-module-challenges
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Generalitat de Catalunya - Cultura
· Ruby
· ★ 1
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Upgraded the Decidim module to version 0.30, modifying many files to align with the new core.
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parser
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IIIF Commons
· TypeScript
· ★ 19
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Fixed double‑encoding of percent‑escaped identifiers in the IIIF Presentation 2 parser.
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iiif-manifest-editor
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Digirati
· TypeScript
· ★ 45
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Merges two pull requests for the IIIF Manifest Editor, including fixes for the 2.2.0 release.
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MitoPilot
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Smithsonian Institution
· R
· ★ 6
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Implemented mitogenome search, circularization, scaffold joining, and topology generation for user‑supplied assemblies in the R package.
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crsw-data-ingestion-tool
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King’s Digital Lab
· Python
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Adds a project picker, renames sidecar.py to record.py, introduces a dataset record API, expands dataset schema, and implements a DCAT JSON‑LD exporter.
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pwd
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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pcl
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
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geniza
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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dfg-viewer
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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m3gim
Digital Humanities Craft
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concepts
German Archaeological Institute
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saxon-ror
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
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IIIF
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MapLibre GL
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Three.js
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Voyager
· v0.65.0
Adds an "Enabled" property for actions and new EnableAction/DisableAction types, plus several bug fixes such as platform‑dependent AR button visibility, annotation crash handling, tour step UI fixes, animation alternation, shader loading, and slicerEnabled behavior, plus memory‑management improvements.
View on GitHub
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Voyager
Multiple feature enhancements and bug fixes for the Voyager 3D explorer, including memory cleanup, AR button handling, new action APIs, and UI tweaks.
View on GitHub
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