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Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Remodel exhibition resources in Prismic #10819

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

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

• Write a release plan for the Cookies Management work #10826

• Set the "secure" attribute on our cookies #9774

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

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

• Design system: review discoveries with designers and developers #10763

• Investigate tokens plugin in Figma for design system MVP workflow

Other

• Fixed: State of items in Archive tree not updating and showing non-existing content #10765
• Events search label and meta description updated #10777
• Make sense of our package management #10815
• Display API error in Images when limit has been reached #10836

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Get nextOpeningDates from content-api to return availableDates from itemsAPI #767

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

• Move common MARC transformations out of transformer_sierra #2563

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

• Deleted big bags for the storage service that were stuck in an awkward state

• Estimate S3 storage requirements for large images #5742

Other

• Deleted superseded Wellcome Collection blog

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Implement recommendations from visual stories research and design

• Design exhibition guide index page, audio and bsl guide pages

• Complete exhibition resources work and review with editorial

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

• Complete cookie policy page and categorised cookie list

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

• Pull together past research insights and industry analysis into a design brief

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

• Investigate naming conventions for design tokens

• Figure out approach for deciding on use of icons in the design system

Other

• Complete transition to Prismic Slice Machine for our content management system

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Create RFC for next steps for events in search #125
• Items page to consume available dates from items API

• Plan work following on from RFC comments

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities​

• Quantify and find the size of the 869 shoots -> a datastore with this info

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

• Demonstrate merging EBSCO records with Sierra records #2618
• Refine the transform of the MARCXML records

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

Other

• Health rota for checking packages to be updated: Georgia