20240215

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Increase access to our collections

• Allow born digital METs through the METS adapter filter #2507

Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Events in search: Style cards on events search #10587; Re-add sort to events search #10544; Create listing endpoint #67; Filters & Aggregation [pipeline side] #69; Update parameters for filtering in the events API + tests #71

Wellcomecollection.org is reliable, efficient and compliant

• Refactor end-to-end tests to be more reliable #10409

• Meaningful ECS service health checks #10545

• Investigating missing item records #2536

• Protect the load-balancer from bots #10626

Other

• Analytics: Evaluation of Cult of Beauty audio and bsl guide usage #10625; Compile January monthly stats for WC Combined Stats Dashboard #10636

• Review exceptional opening hours behaviour #10271

• Monday closure messaging: Review design & behaviour of Monday closure messaging in What's On Today and implement #10603, #10629

• Add a hardcoded banner + toggle to activate in case of widespread web site issues #10615

Focusing on next

Increase access to our collections

• Design works page for downloadable born digital files

  • Design works page

  • Present to collections team?

• Offsite requesting:

  • Plan to move calculating available dates for item requesting to the items API #741
• EBSCO

  • Setup an SFTP server to receive MARCXML from HLM #2552
  • Investigate implementing a MARCXML transformer (using example data)

  • Confirm with EBSCO that the HLM customisation options will provide us with all the data we require (resource URL specifically).

• Restricted access

  • More granularity in user roles from patron type #400

Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Add and style filters & sorting for events search

  • Events filterable and sortable

  • Review events in search as a team

  • Plan for reporting back usage of events in search

Wellcomecollection.org is reliable, efficient and compliant

• Complete evaluation of (cookies) Consent Management Platform solution

  • Undertake technical spike to evaluate supplier shortlist (eg. free trials)

Team goal - Product and team vision, goals & priorities are clear & communicate

• Collectively draft a digital access/experience team vision

• Collections team vision workshop

Other

• Use updated Sierra item status code and rules for requesting to handle safeguarded material #753
• All Digirati infra should use base AMIs with monitoring agents installed #422