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Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Create Elasticsearch cluster in Terraform #10, add mapping #14, add sorting to query #25

• Set up pipeline service app skeleton #11

• Content API results in stories search are now available behind the ‘Stories search: Content API’ toggle #9578, add relevancy as a sorting option under Content API toggle #9580, fix missing label #9575

• Standardise reporting scripts around build test and deploy #89

• Design work to update search box on Collections landing and works pages #9351

Increase discoverability of the collections by subjects, people and genres

• Make Genre Concept ids queryable #106, add filters for genre concepts #637

Wellcome Collection is an accessible place to visit

• New story format for short films including transcripts (Watch here) #9467

Objective: Increase the technical sustainability of our core platform services

• Set up Dependabot, which will help us keep our third-party dependencies up-to-date

• Cardigan: move docs to Gitbook #9156

• Create a shared Terraform module for ACM certificates #5677

Focusing on next

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

• Pipeline service for the Content API regularly fetching updated content

• Pipeline transforming partOf data for improved stories relevance

• Documentation for Content API v1 added to developer site

• 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

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

• Wrap up GA4 implementation

Wellcome Collection is an accessible place to visit

• Short discovery phase on accessible content formats