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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Objective: Increase transparency and completeness of collections information

• Combine lettering and lettering note for visual material #2330

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

• Starting to get Prismic content into ES: Content-api: Infrastructure #2, Content-api: Transformer for articles #9415, Elasticsearch content migration #12

• Look for new search patterns / intentions in the search logs #124

• Build a prototype for semantic search #127, #128, #129

• A/B test 'Comics' slice on Stories landing page #9083

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

• Compiled archive accreditation stats #9455

• Finalised comms plan re: GA4 transition #9203

• Investigated audio and video tracking in GA4 #9356

• Updated website tracking document #9433

• Created content groups in GA4 for reporting analysis #9385

Objective: Increase the technical sustainability of our core platform services

• Document access our AWS root accounts and make it more consistent #371, #5655
• Update to next 13 - update packages to stable releases #9360

Focusing on next

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

• Work towards a pipeline service for the content API

• Get feedback on semantic search prototype from internal users

• Experiment with new search query e.g. treating certain character pairs as equivalent, investigating irrelevant high-scoring search results

• Address and prevent design debt via:

  • new story format: short film

  • fully implement new search bar on Collections landing and works pages

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

• Prepare for quarterly reporting

• Continue GA4 transition