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