Joshua Ramon Enslin

Is FAIR publishing of cultural heritage data still possible in times of large-scale AI-scraping?

The recent issues with server instability have been solved. To do so, we had to significantly reduce resources available to the IIIF API. And in learning from the whole situation, a feed of the most recent relevant blog posts are now displayed to users directly in musdb.

Between Thursday last week (November 27th) and yesterday (December 6th), museum-digital has seen its most instable week in about four years. Now that the dust has settled a bit, there's finally some time to discuss what happened and how we managed to tackle the multiple issues leading to the (very noticeable) instability.

A summary of recent updates and development around museum-digital in October 2025.

Recent (technical) development around museum-digital in September 2025.

A summary of the recent updates and (technical) development around museum-digital in August 2025.

museum-digital can now be browsed in Hindi.

An overview about recent developments around museum-digital in May 2025.

museum-digital's public portals can now be browsed in Telugu.

museum-digital's public portals can now be used in Tamil.

In terms of development happening around museum-digital, February 2025 was a rather calm month. While more happened in the "machine room", immediately visible changes are mostly restricted to bugfixes. And a whole new tool.

Last month a new sort option appeared on museum-digital: "Aesthetics prediction". Thoughts on AI, beauty, and the discriminating nature of sorting.

Once again a simple change log of the recent updates to museum-digital's different tools.

A short overview in list form of the recent technical updates around museum-digital, as of November 2024.

musdb now provides import and export tools for the EODEM standard, allowing for the simple exchange of loan object information.