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/tags/poster/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-august-2025/

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

<p>The last months have been busy, off and on museum-digital. This is the first of three posts today on recent technical developments around museum-digital to continue the regular state of dev posts.</p> <h2 id="development">Development</h2> <h3 id="musdb"><a rel="external" href="https://en.about.museum-digital.org/software/musdb/">musdb</a></h3> <ul> <li>Added a tool for the AI-aided detection of displayed subjects in images for tagging <ul> <li>Has to be explicitly turned on on a per-collection basis, as it makes sense only for certain types of objects (like paintings, drawings, photographs)</li> <li>Usable within the tagging overlay on object editing pages</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://blog.museum-digital.org/de/2025/08/27/automatische-erkennung-von-abgebildeten-elementen/">blog post about the feature (German)</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>The maximum length of contents in the data field “edition” of literature entries has been extended to 50 characters</li> <li>Uploaded PDFs may now be up to 40 MB large</li> <li>New command line option to reset all permissions of a user account to the default provided by their user role</li> <li>New event type: “Changed”</li> </ul> <h3 id="nodac"><a rel="external" href="https://en.about.museum-digital.org/software/nodac/">nodac</a></h3> <ul> <li>Added AI-generated suggestions for tag definitions and translations of tag names in a sidebar <ul> <li>This is also re-used to identify duplicate tags</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-august-2025/./20251125_screenshot-nodac-ai-sidebar.png-1024x576.webp" alt="Screenshot of a tag editing page in nodac, showing the new (August 2025) sidebar with AI-generated aids." /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The right sidebar of tag editing pages in nodac now features AI-generated tag descriptions as well as possible translations for the title. These are also used to identify possible duplicates of a tag entry (top right, underlined in purple).</figcaption></figure></p> <h2 id="dissemination">Dissemination</h2> <ul> <li>Poster presented at <a rel="external" href="https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2025/">CoRDI 2025</a> (<a rel="external" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250612013921/https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2025/">Archived</a>) on August 27, 2025, in Aachen: <a rel="external" href="https://www.jrenslin.de/talks/case-for-underhanded-methods-to-improve-research-data-cordi/">“To Educate or to Enforce - The Case for Underhanded Methods to Improve Research Data”</a> <ul> <li><a rel="external" href="https://files.museum-digital.org/en/Posters/2025-08-26_To-Educate-or-to-Enforce_CoRDI2025-Aachen_JRE.pdf">PDF</a></li> <li><a rel="external" href="https://www.jrenslin.de/abstracts/cordi-2025-caseforunderhandedmethodsimproveresearchdata/">Abstract</a> / <a rel="external" href="https://zenodo.org/records/16736291">Zenodo</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-august-2025/AI-gen-blog-202511-state-of-2025-08.png-scaled.webp