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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase transparency and completeness of collections information

• Make sure the status and access of a physical item always display #9400

Objective: Increase findability across the collections, stories and public programme

• Tidy up after new search release #9388, #9381, #9034

• RFC written for the content API #5661

• RFC written for the content pipeline #5662

Objective: Increase discoverability of the collections by subjects, people and genres

• Rank should be able to run tests with filters applied #626

• Update query and mapping for better recall and punctuation handling #624

• Add tests for exact-match prioritisation in search #608

• Write RFC about conceptifying Genres #5659

• Split catalogue-concepts entries in the Recorder #98

• Gather types and canonicalids in the Concepts Aggregator #99

• Set the type of the primary concept in a genre to Genre #2335

• Feature comics series on Stories landing page  #9412

Objective: User data is handled in compliance with our legal and ethical obligations

• GA4: create report for monitoring of serials #8560

• Go through UA events to decide which we want to reproduce in GTM #9201

Objective: Increase the technical sustainability of our core platform services

• Update to next 13 - get things running #9231

• Simplify and refactor our code for handling article series and serials, which includes a fix for showing part numbers on series pages #8516

Focusing on next

Objective: Increase findability across the collections, stories and public programme

• Get the data in ES to use in the content API

• Get content API infrastructure into prod

• Build a prototype for semantic search

• Clarify with Editorial what they need/want with comics and decide on and implement the B test

Objective: Increase discoverability of the collections by subjects, people and genres

• Get genre concept web pages populated in production

Objective: User data is handled in compliance with our legal and ethical obligations

• Share findings from implementing tag manager

• Prepare for quarterly reporting

• Set up custom events

Objective: Increase the technical sustainability of our core platform services

• Complete next.js upgrade clean up