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September 23, 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.
8 New Repos 83 Releases 116 Active Orgs
This week, from the 736 sources we track in 55+ countries.
01  Spotlight
iiif-gateway
Europeana
Europeana IIIF Gateway provides a lightweight proxy that translates IIIF requests to the Europeana API, exposing IIIF manifests and images via a cloud‑native gateway. The v1.2.2 release adds a new IIIF manifest collection endpoint, enabling bulk retrieval of manifests. It also introduces support for the new eCloud environment, fixing diacritic handling in link headers, correcting fully qualified domain names in non‑production responses, and removing the deprecated /data‑providers endpoint.
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02  Releases
iiif-gateway
Europeana  · Shell
Adds support for a IIIF manifest collection endpoint, new eCloud features, fixes diacritics in link headers, corrects FQDN handling, and removes the /data-providers endpoint.
digital-preservation
Digirati  · C#  · ★ 1
Release v1.3.1 adds dual‑mode support for RFC‑0001 API caller identity, allowing environments to switch between legacy single‑audience and per‑caller configurations via configuration changes.
dmg-rest-api
Design Museum Gent  · JavaScript  · ★ 3
A new GET /v2/id/production endpoint returns both production dates and acquisition dates for objects, adds colour‑index hex values, and fixes missing production dates that previously broke several filters.
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl  · TypeScript  · ★ 12024
Adds Shapefile, Excel, and FlatGeobuf import, a timezone selector for time filters, in‑memory row extraction from drawn polygons, and a Jenks natural‑breaks color scale.
dpo-voyager
Smithsonian Institution  · JavaScript  · ★ 204
The State Editor panel adds the ability to create one‑directional state change snapshots that can be triggered via Actions, includes a details panel for editing recorded properties, and introduces a new "StateChange" action type.
cudami  · 11.0.0-rc.3
Bavarian State Library
blacklight  · v9.2.0
Blacklight (Discovery)
heripo-research-radar  · v5.2.0
Heripo Lab
join-the-dots-dev  · v1.10.1
Natural History Museum
timdex-ui  · v0.83
MIT Libraries
mod-erm-usage-harvester  · v5.1.3
Folio (Library Services)
arche-biblatex  · 2.6.12
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
heripo-engine  · v0.1.45
Heripo Lab
MitoPilot  · 1.5.5
Smithsonian Institution
03  Most Active Repos
1. backstage  — dbmdz
765 commits, 300 files changed
2. crossreads  — kingsdigitallab
579 commits, 301 files changed
3. participa  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
4. salut-sistema-disseny  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
5. massi  — finnish-heritage-agency
1 commit, 300 files changed
04  Notable Pushes
hyku
Samvera  · Ruby  · ★ 109
Added IIIF ranges feature flag, implemented IIIF ranges for child work manifests, and added IIIF search support for nested work hierarchies; also bumped the iiif_manifest dependency.
dezoomify
lovasoa  · Rust  · ★ 827
Introduces shared format pipeline contracts, centralizes catalog metadata, improves discovery routing and diagnostics, and bumps dezoomify core to version 3.1.0.
mirador
Mirador Viewer  · JavaScript  · ★ 617
Fixes provider logo image requests when the logo uses an image service, correcting thumbnail sizing.
dpo-voyager
Smithsonian  · JavaScript  · ★ 204
Implemented a state editor with UI controls, bug fixes, error checking, and loading manager balance improvements for the Voyager 3D explorer.
laji
Luomus  · TypeScript  · ★ 10
Multiple commits address query handling, error propagation, UI overflow, and map link fixes in the Finnish biodiversity portal frontend.
plugin-ExhibitBuilder
Omeka  · PHP  · ★ 25
Added exhibit page template, configurable block templates, layout options, validation, and rendering logic for the Exhibit Builder plugin.
acq-models
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
Added FiscalYearHierarchy schema with nested named schemas, examples, and several API extensions for discount handling, voucher audit events, and export transmission methods.
dmg-rest-api
Design Museum Gent  · JavaScript  · ★ 3
Added language support and multilingual titles to the object view endpoint, enhancing multilingual handling in the API.
vicav-vue3
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities  · TypeScript
Added multiple feature enhancements to the VICAV Vue3 frontend, including extended project type handling, validation diagnostics, toast notifications for validation messages, helper‑based caching, and documentation updates.
kitodo-production
Kitodo
colmap
Colmap
massi
The Finnish Heritage Agency
openseadragon
Open Seadragon
crdh
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
folio-custom-fields
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
Meshroom
AliceVision
cesium
CessiumJS
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl
layup
Smithsonian Institution
ct-django
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
climate_risk_index_for_biodiversity
Vizzuality
Web-Client
Knowledge Graph Management System
Omeka
Omeka
universalviewer4
Riksarkivet
awesome-iiif
IIIF Consortium
dataplattform
Riksarkivet
DaSSCo-Digitization
Natural History Museum of Denmark
archivematica-infrastructure
Wellcome Collection
opendata
National Gallery of Art
pandas4
National Library of Australia
catalogue-pipeline
Wellcome Collection
laji-form
Luomus
sustainability
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Skosmos-widget-finna
National Library of Finland
to.science.api
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
CloudCompare
CloudCompare
blender
Blender Foundation
IIIFBundle
Göttingen State and University Library
cesium-native
CessiumJS
Twirl
Knowledge Graph Management System
openaccess
Cleveland Museum of Art
website
IIIF Consortium
SpeakLikeMe
The Digital Repository of Ireland
Ogee
Getty Center
linkedart.js
Getty Center
fido
Open Preservation Foundation
bom
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
marinegeo-R-utilities
Smithsonian Institution
naturblick-django
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
tainacan
Tainacan Project
dr2-ingest
The National Archives UK
timdex-ui
MIT Libraries
MDT-PROCON
Connections Museum
folio-export-common
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
mod-data-export-worker
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
crossreads
King’s Digital Lab
panoptes-javascript-client
Zooniverse
ingestion3
Digital Public Library of America
index_search_monorepo
HathiTrust Digital Library
backstage
Bavarian State Library
kitodo-production
Saxony State and University Library (SLUB)
RDFa-Editor
Knowledge Graph Management System
pwd
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
05  Tool Watch
IIIF
dezoomify
Introduces shared format pipeline contracts, centralizes catalog metadata, improves discovery routing and diagnostics, and bumps dezoomify core to version 3.1.0.
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Three.js
Voyager
Implemented a state editor with UI controls, bug fixes, error checking, and loading manager balance improvements for the Voyager 3D explorer.
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