# 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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9759)
* Create basic, hard-coded Visual Stories prototypes for peer review [#9846](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9846), [#9848](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9848) behind a toggle [#9842](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9842), with icons on contact information [#9886](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/content-api/issues/48)
* Document the Content API [#52](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/content-api/issues/52)
* Experiment with queries for colour search and similarity [#139](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/data-science/issues/139)
* Create indices directly from JSON config [#2357](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/2357), [#2369](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/2369)
* Expose accession numbers for archives e.g. [Herbals: 16th cent.](https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c9ygfnxh) [#5695](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5695), [#9899](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/9899)
* Enabling analysis of 'search within' functionality in the viewer [#9650](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/storage-service/issues/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
