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museum-digital’s public portals can now be used in Tamil.
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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.
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 …
A Re-Designed Frontend – Version 2024
Over the holidays we worked on a re-design of the frontend of museum-digital. The reasons were manyfold. While the old design of the frontend still looked well, discussing it with different people – especially those who were not regular users – revealed some shortcomings. Others had naturally developed after five years of use or been …
API documentation for frontend and md:term
md:term was designed to provide an API first and foremost. The frontend supported a full API providing to all access that the HTML version does since about 2016. We never got around to fully and systematically document the APIs however. Starting today, an OpenAPI documentation is available for both md:term and the frontend of museum-digital. …
Summary of the monthly user meetup (April 2023) / New features and improvements
We continued the series of monthly user meetups and again discussed the new features and improvements. A summary can be found below. New Developments The last month has been an exceptionally slow month in terms of technical development around museum-digital. There are however some newsworthy tidbits. musdb Recording external IDs for museums Museums, like all …
Summary of the monthly user meetup (March 2023)
Yesterday, we held our regular user meetup as scheduled. As promised, below you can find an overview of the new features and updates below some more general points. General YouTube channel There now is a museum-digital YouTube channel. For now, one can find some German-language screencasts on different features in musdb and nodac there. New …
New Features at museum-digital (November 2022)
After trying a monthly change log once some month ago, we have unfortunately been rather lenient with notifying everyone of new features and updates in the last months. To approach betterment, here there is a list of the updates of November 2022 the form of screenshots. As a very large update is upcoming in the …
musdb and frontend available in French and Russian
In the last month we have been able to finally release the long-anticipated French and Russian translations of the frontend of museum-digital as well as musdb. A Ukrainian translation is currently being worked on as well. Thanks a lot to the colleagues from Speyer and Berlin-Karlshorst for organizing and translating!
Monthly museum-digital user meetup (September 2022) / New Features
On September 6th 2022, we continued our monthly user meetups. As should best become the norm, we discussed recent new features of the preceeding month and plan a next meetup on the first Tuesday of October (October 4th, 2022, 5 p.m. at https://meet.jit.si/museum-digital-meetup-202210). A summary of the new features and updates can be found in …
Monthly museum-digital user meetup (August 2022) / New features
On Tuesday last week we had our first international user meetup. As proposed, we mainly discussed recent updates and new features before opening up the general discussion. In the process, we also wrote a list of the new features introduced with short notes on each. You can find it below. The next monthly meetup is …
Referencable Maps in the Frontend and in musdb
Development on museum-digital will be concentrated on more internal functionalities in the next months, but some small improvements continue to be made in the public frontend. Like today: We have now implemented the option to directly link to a position on a map view for object search results both in the frontend and in musdb. …
IIIF and museum-digital
Many have seen it and the feedback has been consistently positive thus far: For many objects, museum-digital can now offer a revamped image viewer with improved features, such as a much better zoom function. This is made possible by the image viewer Mirador and our IIIF API. The fact that museum-digital offers an IIIF API …
More Stability and Some New Features
Over the last months, we have not been inactive in further developing museum-digital. We mainly worked to improve the legibility of our code under the hood – say, most changes will hopefully not be noticeable, but an improved speed of especially searches for objects may be a positive and visible effect. Either way, we have …
OpenSearch: Search museum-digital directly from the browser’s search bar
OpenSearch is an open web standard for describing search functions of web services. If a website supports it, the browser will take note and offer the user to install the website as a search machine. One especially nice aspect of it is, that OpenSearch can be implemented in just a few lines of code. It …