20230607

Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Understand current user behaviour and usage of exhibitions and visual stories #9759

• Create basic, hard-coded Visual Stories prototypes for peer review #9846, #9848 behind a toggle #9842, with icons on contact information #9886. Peer review with wider WC access groups is forthcoming!

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Content API faceting for contributors, formats and publication dates #48

• Document the Content API #52

• Experiment with queries for colour search and similarity #139

• Create indices directly from JSON config #2357, #2369

• Expose accession numbers for archives e.g. Herbals: 16th cent. #5695, #9899

• Enabling analysis of 'search within' functionality in the viewer #9650

Objective: Build the platform services to support born digital access

• The replicators can now copy S3-to-S3 files which are more than 5GB #1066

Focusing on next

Objective: Increase access to our collections

• Write guides for people who want to start using our APIs for https://developers.wellcomecollection.org

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

• Gain confidence in our content patterns in visual stories

• Start looking at bidirectional relationships between stories and other content

Objective: Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Prepare for and deploy refactored mapping and query for catalogue and image search

• Develop RFC for rank’s next steps

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

• Fill TEI update gap

• Improve colour filtering for image search

Objective: Increase discoverability across our collections and stories

• Investigate how to ingest MeSH