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

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

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