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Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Document our GA setup in Gitbook #9266

• Set up GA4 users with appropriate access level #9465

Objective: Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

• Analysed traffic sources, Google search queries and page paths for people who view visual stories pages #9759

• Identify obvious print styles wins and integrate them #9740

• Plan and run exhibition and visual stories workshops, supported by Visual Stories research #9663

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Fix a bug with pagination at the end of a list of stories search results #9130

• Improve jumping to a page in search – now you can jump to a page at the bottom of the results list and on mobile devices #9508

• Add format and contributor filters and aggregations to content API #48

• Analysed differences in user behaviour between those who use Concepts pages and those who do not #8663

Objective: Build the platform services to support born digital access

• We’ve completed a major upgrade to DLCS, the IIIF API server we use to serve digitised images on the website. This update includes a variety of performance improvements, changes to bring DLCS up-to-date with modern standards, and lays the groundwork for access to restricted and born-digital items.

Focusing on next

Objective: Improve the venue experience for people with specific access needs

• Make at least one visual story available for peer review

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Refactoring mapping and query for catalogue and image search

• Write RFC for what needs addressing with rank

• Create UI to filter by date, contributor, format in Stories search