# 20240425

## Progress against our quarterly objectives

### Digital Experience

#### Born-digital collection is available to the public

* Born-digital MVP designs [#10600](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10770)

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

* Cookies consent: designs [#10597](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10597)
* Add Manage Cookies to footer behind a toggle [#10707](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10707)

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

* Design System discovery: integrations [#10794](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10794)
* Compare Cardigan to Trust design system: [#10786](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10786)

#### Other

* Pagination - remove input field [#10684](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10684)
* Upgrade to pa11y8 for accessibility issues [#10766](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10766)
* Compile Q2 data for quarterly departmental meeting [#10772](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10772)
* Looker Studio reports for Editorial [#10784](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10784)
* Event search - tracking and understanding usage [#10675](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10675)

### Digital Platform

#### Improve access to our collections for staff and users

* Incorporate offsite items into our location model [#2588](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/2588)
* Offsite requesting RFC [#770](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-api/issues/770)

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

* Add EBSCO transformer skeleton [#2612](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/pull/2612)
* Create a lambda to act as an EBSCO adapter. [#2552](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/10795)
* Big bags into the storage service: release new version of scala-libs [#1123](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/storage-service/issues/1123), Use scala-libs v32.41.0 in storage-service [#1125](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/storage-service/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform-infrastructure/issues/415) - wecobot

#### Other

* What do we do with queries on long titles which cause alerts [#435](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform-infrastructure/issues/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
