State of Development, November 2025
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State of Development, October 2025
A summary of recent updates and development around museum-digital in October 2025.
State of Dev, September 2025
Recent (technical) development around museum-digital in September 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
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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 …