State of Development, October 2025
A summary of recent updates and development around museum-digital in October 2025.
Development
Community Development Dissemination Frontend musdb Presentations
New Features Object search (frontend) User interface
State of Dev, September 2025
Recent (technical) development around museum-digital in September 2025.
State of Dev, August 2025
A summary of the recent updates and (technical) development around museum-digital in August 2025.
Making Interoperability Easy
Interoperability has been one of the focal issues around museum-digital practically since its inception. Offering different, simple ways to bring data into the system was a necessary requirement to even think of what we do. And offering simple ways to get the data out of the system again is just good practice – though all …
State of Dev, June & July 2025
June and especially July were at first glance once again rather slow months in terms of development at museum-digital. Generally, the pace and type of development seems to have changed this year. Rather than doing many small improvements all over the place, there is less but larger and more labor intensive changes and new features. …
Hindi
museum-digital can now be browsed in Hindi.
State of Dev, May 2025
An overview about recent developments around museum-digital in May 2025.
Browse museum-digital in: Telugu
museum-digital’s public portals can now be browsed in Telugu.
Browse museum-digital in: Tamil
museum-digital’s public portals can now be used in Tamil.
State of Dev, March & April 2025
Frontend musdb Importer
Bringing back character-driven search for inventory numbers in musdb
If you search for “run”, you want to find entries (objects, blog posts, etc.), that mention “ran”. If you search for inventory numbers like “*1”, you want to find “0001”. These are fundamentally different categories of search. In the first case, you want to have a language-aware full-text search. In the latter case, you simply …
State of Dev, February 2025
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.
Kannada
There’s lots of talk about the FAIR principles – publishing findable and accessible data. Logically, to be findable and accessible, the data should at the very least be described in the language of users, even if it is not itself translated. And that means, that before object information becomes multilingual, plattforms should become (more) multilinugal …
Sort by Beauty
Last month a new sort option appeared on museum-digital: “Aesthetics prediction”. Thoughts on AI, beauty, and the discriminating nature of sorting.
State of Dev, December 2024 & January 2025
Once again a simple change log of the recent updates to museum-digital’s different tools.
A Concordance Checker for Preparing Imports to museum-digital
When one runs an import to museum-digital – specifically one focused on internal collection management data – there is a chance to encounter errors of unmatched entries. The import tool identified that one tried to import a yet unknown value to what is a controlled field in musdb. Common issues appear especially with actor roles …
Version Control & Batch Transfer Between Data Fields of Object Records
The new year 2025 comes with two long-awaited new features in musdb: detailed version control of object data and an option to batch transfer object data from one free text field to another. Version control Until a few days ago, a central and sorely missed feature in musdb was a detailed version history of the …
State of Development, November 2024: “Real” separated Measurements and a Better Recognition of Tags, Places, etc.
A short overview in list form of the recent technical updates around museum-digital, as of November 2024.
State of Development, October 2024: Searching Objects Currently On Exhibition, Linking Location and Acquisition of Literature
After the blog has been very quiet this year with regard to the technical development of museum-digital, we are now trying to publish the summaries of new developments – enriched with screenshots – that are prepared for the monthly “regional administrators” rounds in Germany anyway. These are in the form of listings, and this is …
Reconciliation APIs arrive to museum-digital
Imagine you have a spreadsheet with potentially unclean data or data that is not confirmed to be interoperable. A museum may want to migrate their data to a different system or share it with an aggregator or a researcher may want to analyze data from different museums where each has their own thesaurus. To make …