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A message from Jenn on behalf of the team:
You’ll notice we’ve closed a lot of tickets relating to IIIF v3. What is that, and why does it matter?
We make all of our digitised content available through the International Image Interoperability Framework, which over time has evolved to handle audio and video material (time-based media, if you will). We’d previously been using IIIF v2 for digitised printed and archival material, along with some local customisations to enable digitised video and audio.
Now, IIIF v3 is here to give us better support for audio, video and born digital material. The benefits of IIIF v3 include:
Ability to annotate parts of an audio or video file so users can navigate it. This could be structural information like marking out 5 interviews on a cassette, for example.
Better handling of digitised collections that have a mix of media, for example a video that has a transcript; they’ll all be delivered using the same consistent specification
Improvements to how the data is modelled in JSON-LD (hopefully leading to developer happiness too)
It’s also a prerequisite for the forthcoming IIIF Authentication specification, as well as the work to make born digital archives available early next year.
Done
Features
Search: Align buttons and input fields to new design #8820
Search: Add Pageview to more pages #8841
Search: Finalise Pagination component styles and layout #8861
Search: Improvements and changes to ResultList for stories, exhibitions and events #8825
Test text-embedding pipelines in elasticsearch #114
Recorder: bulk operation mode #76
Connect concepts api to concepts index #572
Replace the Subject ontologyType with the type derived from the MARC field #2235
Investigating changes in Google Analytics page views #8744
Compile October WC Combined Stats Report #8837
High-level brief for collections access improvements in Q1 #8767
Collection of analysis tickets covering collections search behaviour #8790
Image search user journey mapping/jobs to be done #8757
Map the search user journey for Kick off #8768
Bug fixes
Fix the token refresh in the Python client (+ associated flaky tests) #983
Reindex freezes in the batcher near end of processing #2255
Search: Fix TabNav scrollbar always being present #8874
Improve the way we handle dates and events for multi-day events #8830
Fix the listing of events on the What's On and Past Event pages #8894
Correct item page reporting behaviour #99
Sustainability
Manage the reporting cluster in terraform #82
Ditch the clever "should we build this" logic #5626
Don't write the internal model version to Elasticsearch #2253
Focusing on next
Finalise sorting and pagination in new and existing search
Search reporting for new search pages
Filters: responsive filter bar and modal
Show the search results overview page (first cut)
Concepts data snagging
Write an RFC for improved Lambda logging
Investigate running apps locally
Works pages: get tabbed navigation behind a toggle
Works pages: work out how to track metrics
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