20200424

Experience

Done

• Updated link focus styles #5242, inputs (including validation and label animation) #5235, radio #5218 and checkboxes #5217

• Added pixel information to image downloads #5206

• Updated Storybook version used for Cardigan #5227

• Homepage design and making it editable from Prismic #5247

• Completed a UX audit of the collections search journey, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses/anything that doesn't make sense within the current journey #5209

• We are now set up to do 100% remote testing and have already begun tests #5172

• Analysed adding pixel info the single image download buttons #5206

• Had a whole team introduction to archives session in preparation for adding archive material to search #5231

• Updated packages to keep the site up-to-date #5219

Preservation

Done

• Decided on an improved approach to logging #4415, #4395 / #4443

• Indexing storage service ingests in ElasticSearch to give better visibility of works going into the storage service, debugging #4417

• Finished the verification of files migrated from Preservica #4381

Focusing on next

• Verify that everything came out of Preservica

• Indexing storage service data in Elasticsearch

Data

Done

• Works are now merging using CALM items #4434

• Archives are now in the catalogue API #4378, #4420, #4433

• Merging documentation has been written

• Optimized the feature inferrer for production #4428

• Extracted a resuable library from the works ingestor and implement the images ingestor #4207

• Images are now in an index with extra data that enables image similarity searching #4402

• Started exploratory work on a 'concepts' pipeline, to aggregate information from LCSH, MeSH, wikidata etc. on our subjects, genres, and contributors #4407, #4424, #4438

Focusing on next

• Getting images into the new images API

• Surfacing CALM data in the API

Current search relevance tests

• BoolBoosted vs PhaserBeam. Read more about it