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AmuseAlot
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Museum Tech Newsletter
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October 14, 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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21
New Repos
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97
Releases
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121
Active Orgs
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This week, from the 736 sources we track in 55+ countries.
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blacklight
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Blacklight (Discovery)
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Blacklight adds a new permissions layer to its workflow system, enabling fine‑grained access control for search and discovery actions. The update introduces permission checks in the workflow code and merges a dedicated permissions branch, affecting six files with 18 lines of added code. This change expands the engine’s capability to manage user roles and rights within Solr‑backed discovery interfaces.
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View on GitHub
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collection
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Museum of Modern Art
· ★ 1557
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Release v2026-10-13 updates the MoMA collection dataset.
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mirador
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Mirador Viewer
· JavaScript
· ★ 619
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Mirador 4.3.0 upgrades to MUI 9, dropping support for MUI 7/8; provides migration guidance and notes impact on plugins and applications that pin MUI versions.
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MitoPilot
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Smithsonian Institution
· R
· ★ 8
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Renames NCBI argument functions and adds automatic plain‑language run reports after assembly or annotation steps.
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broccoli
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Loghi (HTR Tooling)
· Kotlin
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Adds support for multiple 'topTierBodyTypes' in configuration to locate IIIF manifests, includes license information in the OpenAPI spec, and adds response schema and documentation for the search endpoint.
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network-of-terms
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Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
· TypeScript
· ★ 22
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Release adds person properties and a configurable preview link to the reconciliation API of the network‑of‑terms project.
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smartcompanion-library
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SmartCompanion Audioguide
· TypeScript
· ★ 2
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@smartcompanion/ui@2.0.0 updates to Ionic 9, replacing ion‑nav with ion‑router‑outlet and adjusting routing behavior; includes migration instructions.
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tainacan
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Tainacan Project
· Vue
· ★ 175
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Includes lazy‑loading of video embeds, new filter and media‑type metadata, cover‑image rendering options, and several documentation and test‑coverage updates.
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bulkrax
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Samvera
· Ruby
· ★ 14
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Bulkrax 10.0.0 introduces breaking changes for authorization and removes Wings code, requiring Rails 5.2+ and configuration of new ability methods.
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htr2hpc
· 0.8.0
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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tacos
· v0.65
MIT Libraries
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dsp-app
· v13.16.0
Cooperative Information Systems
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backstage
— dbmdz
307 commits,
300 files changed
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tainacan
— tainacan
196 commits,
302 files changed
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x3dom-dev
— x3dom
1 commit,
300 files changed
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dezoomify
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lovasoa
· Rust
· ★ 836
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Added stricter IIIF image validation to prevent false‑positive detections.
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iiif-manifest-editor
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Digirati
· TypeScript
· ★ 45
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Multiple commits added fixes for cropped images and empty summaries, introduced a new API for hash handling, updated v4 helpers and react-iiif-vault, removed a content layer, set up end‑to‑end tests and examples, and merged a feature branch for exhibition fixes.
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Omeka
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Omeka
· PHP
· ★ 556
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Fixed element ID changes, simplified item type add element forms, removed unused code, and ensured item type forms retain order after errors in Omeka.
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omeka-s-vocab
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Omeka
· HTML
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Rewrote the o: and oc: vocabularies and added tools to validate them.
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tainacan
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Tainacan Project
· Vue
· ★ 175
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Implemented bulk‑process security, retry mechanisms, CSV importer cleanup, video preload configuration, and PHP 8 test coverage improvements.
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shfa-frontend
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Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities
· Vue
· ★ 2
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Implemented IIIF rotation control and modified sharing links to include rotation parameters.
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lobid-gnd
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
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Annif
National Library of Finland
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wolpi
Bavarian State Library
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eDNA
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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rpi-pico-card-reader
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante - Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica
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corppa
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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htr2hpc
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
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fw-cli
TAMU Digital Scholarship
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tido
Göttingen State and University Library
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MapLibre GL
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IIIF
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3D Viewers
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OpenLIME
Replaced the gray diffuse shader with a diffuse‑gain implementation and added support for 18 coefficients required for PTM rendering.
View on GitHub
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