20240703

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Add the text highlight element for the Visual Story page body contents #10885

• Create a "More Visual Stories” section near the page footer in every Visual Story page. #10884

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

• Fix custom html tags not firing on first page after consent given #10953

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

• Plan approach to search interface design #10939

Other

• Infoblock documentation #10959

• Remove the body.map(), body transformer and related types #10781

• Add and render an additional field for exhibition-text slice #10937, #10938

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Editorial photography ingest: Upload corporate photography zips to born-digital-accessions #7, Parallelise downloads #11

Other

• Fix some Works are failing due to subjects without labels #2673

• Remove monitoring.wellcomecollection.org #5750

• Provision access for GitHub Actions using OIDC provider relationship with AWS #5752

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Design key screens for Exhibition Guides in desktop & table

• Complete designs ready for handover

• Create prioritised delivery tasks for exhibition guides based on designs

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Urls discovery & RFC GE/devs

• Functional search: clarify what to surface and how (kick-off)

Maintenance

• Upgrade part of the WC repo to Node 18+ #10846

Other

• Filters for Subject and Contributor not working as expected #10952

• Add fields to Promo sections in all Content types #10957

• Treat works with non-existing IIIF Manifests #10907

• Change ‘exhibition’ to ‘display’ in subheadings based on exhibition type #10985

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Set cross-account permissions

• Run the corporate photography ingest

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• XSL assistance to Collections Product Lines

• Items API to return correct availability dates for DeepStore items

• Discuss how to enable viewing restricted items

Support the goals of the Collection with a healthy, cost effective and secure digital platform

• Move ingest inspector from Glitch to AWS

• Move RSS app from Vercel to AWS

• Complete IAM identity centre work for Collection developers

• Plan to implement a shared monitoring instance between InfoSec and Collection devs

• Upgrade Alpakka library to version 4; switch to Pekko

Other

• Items’ availability not updating correctly when items in the same hierarchy are requested