|
AmuseAlot
|
|
Museum Tech Newsletter
|
|
September 16, 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.
|
|
|
10
New Repos
|
80
Releases
|
119
Active Orgs
|
|
This week, from the 736 sources we track in 55+ countries.
|
|
|
|
|
cesium
|
|
CessiumJS
|
|
The CesiumJS library updates its rendering engine to correctly display terrain‑clamped billboards and labels in both 2D and Columbus View modes. The changes refactor billboard position accessors, add documentation on maintaining actual positions across scene modes, and introduce tests covering the new clamped billboard behavior. Additional fixes address allocation issues and incorporate reviewer feedback, improving stability and performance of the 3D globe visualizations.
|
|
View on GitHub
|
|
|
|
|
arches
|
|
Arches Project
· Python
· ★ 286
|
|
Release 7.6.26 for Arches includes bug fixes and minor improvements to the heritage inventory platform.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
arches
· warden-3.2.0
Historic England
|
|
dsp-api
· v39.0.0
Cooperative Information Systems
|
|
go-parquet
· v0.5.0
San Francisco International Airport Museum
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
fw-cli
· 1.1.0
TAMU Digital Scholarship
|
|
.github
· v1.7.2
Folio (Library Services)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.
|
bgfx
— BabylonJS
33 commits,
300 files changed
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5.
|
kb-util
— kb-dk
1 commit,
210 files changed
|
|
|
|
|
|
cesium
|
|
CessiumJS
· JavaScript
· ★ 15737
|
|
Fixed rendering of terrain‑clamped billboards and labels in 2D and Columbus View, refactored related accessors, added documentation, and expanded tests.
|
|
|
osd-iiif-viewer
|
|
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
· TypeScript
|
|
Added a lazy collection viewer example, upgraded to OpenSeadragon 6, released versions 0.4.0 and 0.5.0, and fixed tile placement after viewer destruction.
|
|
|
arches-search
|
|
Arches Project
· Python
· ★ 2
|
|
Integrated a unified search API into the Arches Project's search module, affecting many files.
|
|
|
bgfx
|
|
Babylon.js Engine
· C++
· ★ 6
|
|
Implemented DXGI frame latency control, primitive restart, ring buffer growth, D3D12 device removal data, fixed matrix cache growth, UAV mip depth handling, WebGPU texture update bounds, X11 fullscreen toggle and keyboard fixes, among other graphics engine enhancements.
|
|
|
pcl
|
|
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
· C++
· ★ 11120
|
|
Removed deprecated code in preparation for PCL release 1.16.
|
|
|
blocksy-tainacan
|
|
Tainacan Project
· PHP
· ★ 9
|
|
Added an option to display a PDF cover instead of the embedded viewer in the main gallery slide of the Blocksy‑Tainacan integration.
|
|
|
maplibre-native
|
|
MapLibre
· C++
· ★ 2208
|
|
Added Rendered Feature Accessibility support to the core rendering engine.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
htr2hpc
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
lbz-vocabs
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
mineralogy
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Skosmos
National Library of Finland
|
|
corppa
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saint_Sophia
Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
IIIF
|
dezoomify
Removes redundant image catalog labels from dezoomify, a Rust‑based downloader for IIIF and other zoomable image formats.
View on GitHub
|
|
|
|