20240228

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Increase access to our collections

• EBSCO - Investigate implementing a MARCXML transformer (using example data) #2556

• Born digital: Add file size to download links #10607; Refactor code for transforming iiif manifest/canvas and for rendering canvas items #10606; next design iteration for files available for download on the works page - all behind the ‘Display born digital files toggle’

Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Events: three filters now available for events search behind the ‘Add Events to Search pages’ toggle #10647

Wellcomecollection.org is reliable, efficient and compliant

• Allow CALM and Archivematica records to merge #2508

• Understand and resolve issue with unexpected discrepancy in image search #2549

• Protect IIIF APIs from bot traffic to decrease costs #419

• Adding Monitoring agents to EC2 instances to monitor potential malicious activity #410

• Investigate and make recommendations for moving to Slice Machine (development for our content management system) #10649

• Set up for analysis of traffic between concept and work pages in Segment #10642

• Ensure we’re not tracking if no consent is given (behind a toggle) #10623

• First stage of cookie supplier evaluation completed #10655 #10656 #10657

Focusing on next

Increase access to our collections

• Offsite requesting:

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

  • Setup a lambda to receive data from the EBSCO SFTP #2552
  • Implement a MARCXML transformer

  • Confirm with EBSCO that they can provide the MARCXML where needed

• Restricted access

  • Get confirmation on patron type for accessing restricted content

• Plan library data link explorer work

• Downloadable born digital files

  • Design mobile-view works page

  • Show to collections team

  • Investigate archive tree flexibility (design and dev)

  • Implement designs on works page

Increase findability across our collections and stories

• Events search

  • Add two filters (available online, location: in our building or online)

  • Bring out from toggle?

  • Plan for how we understand usage

Wellcomecollection.org is reliable, efficient and compliant

• Consent Management Platform solution (cookies)

  • Look at Civic UK Pro version from UX / UI design perspective

  • Agree design of banner and preference centre

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

• Refine vision and goals with the Collections team

Other

• Look at why ByteSpider traffic is still making it to the front end

• Extend load balancer health checks or search API to fail if it can’t connect to ES (including Investigate Elasticsearch timeout can be fatal to the ingestor. #2268)
• Whiteboard session on what could make observability of the pipeline better

• Discuss how we treat images

• Can InfoSec see our EC2 instances from the CrowdStrike work previously done