20191206

Experience team

Done

• Viewer improvements: prototype for scrollable main viewing area and thumbnails to match people’s mental models of using a PDF viewer. Just enough images are loaded so it appears seamless and has good performance #4856

• Second round of wc.org site navigation tree testing analysed; results being used to plan a third round

• We created a date filter to aid the search facility and evaluated its performance. While it was used by almost everyone, we found significant differences in the amount of preliminary searching prior to filter use. We are now analysing search behaviours by persona to increase the accuracy of optimisation going forward #4896

• Second round of Sierra material type labels testing conducted to find out how users describe our material; results now being analysed #3807

• An item can be requested via an API

Preservation team

Done

• Support for CALM IDs in the storage service #4088

• Proven that we can run a single collection through Archivematica #4067

• Exported all catalogued born-digital collections from Preservica

Focusing on next

• Born digital migration

• Requesting from Library stores

Data team

Done

• Image search prototype is available behind the ‘Enable the images-only search option’ toggle after a search is run. This is to help researchers only looking for images, including images with similar colour palettes #4079

• Infrastructure for pipeline and adapter configured and deployed

• METS data (digitised status and copyright) can now be used as a source of data #3921

• We can now monitor and optimise search queries to ensure high performance #4058

Focusing on next

• Digitised status and copyright

• Search relevance

Current search relevance test:

• Stacked query: Combination of a set of restrictive, highly boosted ANDs across a few important fields (should match), over a loose, permissive, unboosted OR query across all other relevant fields (must match) #4060