A blog on museum-digital and the broader digitization of museum work. Zola 2025-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 https://blog.museum-digital.org/categories/presentations/atom.xml 2025-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 2025-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 Joshua Ramon Enslin https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/25/state-of-dev-september-2025/

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

<h2 id="development">Development</h2> <h3 id="frontend"><a rel="external" href="https://en.about.museum-digital.org/software/frontend/">Frontend</a></h3> <ul> <li>Objects that are linked to a source as referencing the source or being referenced in it are now listed on the source’s page <ul> <li>Example: <a rel="external" href="https://hessen.museum-digital.de/source/1950">“Novalis Schriften. Die Werke Friedrich von Hardenbergs. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Erster Band: Das dichterische Werk. 3. Auflage”</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>The object page now displays the new transcription fields for notes, status, and type of the transcription</li> <li>New types of classifications for the link between an object and a tag <ul> <li>Taxon</li> <li>Topic</li> <li>Mentioned subject (similar to the existing “display subject”)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Dependencies <ul> <li>Updated OpenLayers to Version 10.6</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"> <p><img src="https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/25/state-of-dev-september-2025/./20251125_referenced-sources_en.png-1024x576.webp" alt="Screenshot: Objects referenced in source on source pages" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Source pages in the public frontend / portals of museum-digital now display all objects linked to the source as either referencing the source or being referenced by their source.</figcaption></figure></p> <h3 id="musdb"><a rel="external" href="https://de.about.museum-digital.org/software/musdb/">musdb</a></h3> <ul> <li>Renaming vocabulary entries to blacklisted terms is now impossible <ul> <li>Someone managed to create an actor “unknown” by adding a different actor and renaming the new actor entry to “unknown” afterwards.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Added a sidebar to object group overview pages for additional filtering options</li> <li>New types of classifications for the link between an object and a tag <ul> <li>Taxon</li> <li>Topic</li> <li>Mentioned subject (similar to the existing “display subject”)</li> </ul> </li> <li>New APIs for listing all vocabulary entries linked to the objects of a museum</li> <li>Dependencies <ul> <li>Updated OpenLayers to Version 10.6</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="importer">Importer</h3> <ul> <li>Core <ul> <li>Deaccessions are now covered by the import tool</li> <li>Recipients of deaccessions are linked to the address book / contact list</li> </ul> </li> <li>Parser <ul> <li>CSVXML: The CSVXML parser now covers deaccessions as well</li> <li>ImageByInvno: Added an option to ignore any characters before a given starting combination of characters (if there is a consistent start of the inventory number).</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="csvxml"><a rel="external" href="https://csvxml.imports.museum-digital.org/">CSVXML</a></h3> <ul> <li>New fields <ul> <li>tag_related_identifier_type</li> <li>tag_related_identifier</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 id="dissemination">Dissemination</h2> <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://www.jrenslin.de/talks/von-museum-digital-zum-eigenen-online-katalog-ag-digitalisierung-mv-rlp/">Presentation</a> “Von museum-digital zum eigenen Online-Katalog” for the Working Group Digitization of the State Museum Association of Rhineland-Palatine <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-09-10_Von-museum-digital-zum-eigenen-Online-Katalog_JRE.pdf">Slides: PDF</a></li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-09-10_Von-museum-digital-zum-eigenen-Online-Katalog_JRE.odp">Slides: ODP</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>AI Use</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>Post image generated using AI.</p> </div> </div> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>License</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>This content is licensed under a <a rel="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a>.</p> </div> </div> https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/25/state-of-dev-september-2025/AI-gen-blog-202511-state-of-2025-09.png-scaled.webp 2025-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 2025-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 Joshua Ramon Enslin https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/25/state-of-development-october-2025/

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

<h2 id="development">Development</h2> <h3 id="frontend"><a rel="external" href="https://en.about.museum-digital.org/software/frontend/">Frontend</a></h3> <ul> <li>Significantly reworked the display of transcriptions on object pages <ul> <li>Titles of transcriptions are now displayed <ul> <li>If none is set, the type of the transcription (original or translation) is used as a replacement</li> </ul> </li> <li>Transcriptions are sorted by their titles</li> <li>Improved the display of transcriptions in tiles <ul> <li>Problems with vertical scrolling are now solved</li> <li>If only one transcription has been recorded, it will be displayed on the full width of the page</li> <li>If there are more than two transcriptions for an object, they are folded in by default and can be unfolded later on</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Batch export of object metadata via the API <ul> <li>Thus far available in JSON &amp; LIDO</li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://nat.museum-digital.de/swagger/#/object/jsonExportObjects">API documentation</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/24/making-interoperability-easy/">See also</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Dots as a separator in floating point numbers for object measurements are replaced with a comma in languages that require that</li> <li>Collection-specific ISIL IDs are used in the LIDO API</li> </ul> <h3 id="musdb"><a rel="external" href="https://en.about.museum-digital.org/software/musdb/">musdb</a></h3> <ul> <li>Added a field for recording titles / names of transcriptions</li> <li>Added the option to set collection-specific ISIL IDs</li> <li>Setting object type tags via the improvement suggestions now correctly classifies the thus created link between object and tag</li> <li>Additional shapes are now available <ul> <li>E.g.: round, square</li> </ul> </li> <li>Object groups can now be filtered by whether they have a superordinate one or not</li> </ul> <h3 id="dissemination">Dissemination</h3> <ul> <li>2025-10-08: <a rel="external" href="https://www.jrenslin.de/talks/interoperabilitaet-schaffen-geschichten-aus-1001-importen-herbsttagung/">Presentation</a> at the Autumn Conference of the Working Group Documentation of the German Museum Association: “Interoperabilität schaffen - Geschichten aus 1001 Importen” <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-10-08_1001-Importe_Herbsttagung-FG-Doku_JRE.pdf">PDF</a></li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-10-08_1001-Importe_Herbsttagung-FG-Doku_JRE.odp">ODP</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>2025-10-14: <a rel="external" href="https://www.jrenslin.de/talks/civers-2025/">Talk</a> on a workshop of the project <a rel="external" href="https://www.dainst.org/forschung/projekte/citation-of-versioned-web-pages-by-pid-civers/5926">CiVers (Citation of Versioned Web Pages by PID)</a> <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-10-14_museum-digital_Civers_JRE.pdf">PDF</a></li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/de/Praesentationen/2025-10-14_museum-digital_Civers_JRE.odp">ODP</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>2025-10-17: <a rel="external" href="https://verein.museum-digital.de/museum-digital-usertagung-2025/">museum-digital Usertagung 2025</a></li> </ul> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>AI Use</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>Post image generated using AI.</p> </div> </div> <div class="my-4 flex flex-col rounded-lg bg-(--admonition-bg)" style="--admonition-bg: var(--admonition-info);" > <div class="flex items-center rounded-t-lg bg-(--admonition-bg) p-1"> <div class="mx-2 h-4 w-4 text-[0px] [background:var(--url)_center_center_no-repeat] dark:invert" style="--url: url(icons/info.svg);" > info </div> <span><strong>License</strong></span> </div> <div class="pl-4"><p>This content is licensed under a <a rel="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a>.</p> </div> </div> https://blog.museum-digital.org/2025/11/25/state-of-development-october-2025/AI-gen-blog-202511-state-of-2025-10.png-scaled.webp 2022-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 2022-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 Joshua Ramon Enslin https://blog.museum-digital.org/2022/06/07/files-museum-digital-org-archive-for-documents-about-museum-digital/ <p>Over the years, many presentations have been held about museum-digital. Articles have been written, and so have tutorials and other documents. To not let them fade into obscurity on the hard drives of their authors, we have now set up a document archive for such files: <a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/">files.museum-digital.org</a>.</p> <p>For the start we have compiled primarily presentations there along with those logos currently in use at museum-digital. Going over the archives also presented a welcome chance to explicitly license most of the files under a <a rel="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0</a> license.</p> https://blog.museum-digital.org/2022/06/07/files-museum-digital-org-archive-for-documents-about-museum-digital/Screenshot_files_museum_digital_org.jpg