20240425

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

  • Born-digital MVP designs #10600

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

  • Usability testing for visual stories

  • Fix to access content arrow goes over text on small desktops #10770

Wellcomecollection.org handles user data in a compliant and transparent way

  • Cookies consent: designs #10597

  • Add Manage Cookies to footer behind a toggle #10707

Build the strongest foundations possible for the Wellcome Design System to succeed

  • Design System discovery: integrations #10794

  • Compare Cardigan to Trust design system: #10786

Other

  • Pagination - remove input field #10684

  • Upgrade to pa11y8 for accessibility issues #10766

  • Compile Q2 data for quarterly departmental meeting #10772

  • Looker Studio reports for Editorial #10784

  • Event search - tracking and understanding usage #10675

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

  • Incorporate offsite items into our location model #2588

  • Offsite requesting RFC #770

Ensure that e-resource data is accurate and supports effective discovery

  • Add EBSCO transformer skeleton #2612

  • Create a lambda to act as an EBSCO adapter. #2552

Ensure that the platform is secure and continues to provide the right foundation for Wellcome Collection's future needs

  • Resolve issues with bot traffic. #10795

  • Big bags into the storage service: release new version of scala-libs #1123, Use scala-libs v32.41.0 in storage-service #1125

  • Reduced critical vulnerabilities from c. 200 to c. 100

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

  • Complete implementation of born-digital download designs #10782

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

  • Restructure Exhibition Guide in Prismic

  • Complete analysis of user research on visual stories & prototype/form recommendations

Wellcomecollection.org handles user data in a compliant and transparent way

  • Complete categorisation of cookies and get descriptions approved

  • Update copy on cookies policy and preference centre

  • Release plan for consent management

Understand what our users needs, expectations and behaviours are for searching for content and information

  • Conduct industry/competitor analysis of UX approaches to website and collections search

  • Gather and document past research & insights

  • Build the strongest foundations possible for the Wellcome Design System to succeed

  • Design system: review discoveries with designers and developers

  • Investigate tokens plugin in Figma for design system MVP workflow

  • Investigate naming conventions for design tokens

Other

  • Prismic slice machine

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

  • Items API returns a list of availability slots

  • Create RFC for next steps for events in search

  • Items page to consume available dates from items API

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities​

  • Kick-off for mediagraph ingest TBC

Ensure that e-resource data is accurate and supports effective discovery

  • Demonstrate merging EBSCO records with Sierra records #2618

Ensure that the platform is secure and continues to provide the right foundation for Wellcome Collection's future needs

  • Set-up SSO for our GitHub organisation #415 - wecobot

Other

  • What do we do with queries on long titles which cause alerts #435

  • Delete superseded Wellcome Collection blog per email from Grace Brewer 15 March 2024 (Robert)

  • Talk from Jamie on ML on the pipeline to team

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