20240522

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

• Implemented the designs for born digital downloads available behind a toggle #10782

• Ingested missing BD METS content #2645

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Completed exhibition resources work #10820

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

• Completed cookie policy page #10760

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

• Pulled 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

Other

• Complete transition to Prismic Slice Machine #10791, #10856, #10852, #10860

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Create RFC for next steps for events in search #125
• Create new RequestingDayPicker that uses available dates from item data #10847
• Items page to consume available dates from items API

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

• Demonstrate merging EBSCO records with Sierra records #2618

Other

• 'All works' button on the graphic medicine concept page finds no results #780
• Don't show unrelated images of veterinary surgery #773
• Gracefully handle very long queries #772

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

• Investigate if the file structure can be shown in the viewer

• Understand the user need around knowing that something is born digital

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Implement visual stories quick-win recommendations

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

• Review exhibition resources CMS changes with editorial

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

• List, categorise and control all cookies

• Test impact on YouTube embeds (eg for catch-up events)

• Add pixel tracking

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

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

Other

• Remove slice machine toggle

• Remove legacy code for rendering slices

• Toggle for data from Prismic staging / run e2es on Prismic staging to enable sharing of the site with a wider group before mgrating (from Prismic retro): Get the toggle_prismicStage cookie and set the prismic env via process.env #10869
• Display webcomics on Stories landing page #10867

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Off-site requesting, next steps #783

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities​

• Quantify and find the size of the 869 shoots and put in a datastore with this info

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

• Further refinements to EBSCO data

• Get EBSCO data into reporting cluster #2575
• Strip url-style prefix from Library of Congress ids #2540

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: Paul