20240912

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

• Born digital collection (https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?workType=hdig&availabilities=online) is now available to the public e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nqt9ef6u via a soft launch

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Complete design for Exhibition page updates: Transcripts #11038, Update cookie logic for QR codes #11039, Migrate Jason exhibition to new exhibition guide content types #11140, Digital Guides styles fixes (incl scroll behaviour) #11126, Create highlight tour stop page #11037

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Replace UIDs in urls with page title: Query content types by UID #11073, Split out projects, pages and guides in codebase #11147

• Global search explorations #11025

Other

• Delete any references to "Covid - welcome back" page in codebase #11145

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Transform V1 and V2 Auth services into the same shape #5759; Fallback from V2 auth services to V1 auth services #5760

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

• Built useful dashboards for Collections developers #5772, #5773, #5774, #5775, #5776, #5777, #5778

Maintenance

• Update rules for requesting #2697

Other

• Add missing licence information from METS #11016

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

• Modify Born Digital detection logic #11128

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

• Bring exhibition guides work out from behind toggle

• Add tracking and test urls #11142

• Exhibition page - finalise design and implement changes: Exhibition page accessibility section update #11173, Visual story & exhibition resources signposting on Exhibition page #10967

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Determine approach to restructuring urls for Pages to reflect where content “lives” on the site: Change way urls are created for Page content type #11072

Maintenance

• Update content-api from Node 18 to Node: Move Content-Api to Node20 #137

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Complete ingesting corporate photography

Ensure that metadata included on the works page meets staff and user needs

• Investigate public 541s and plan next steps with Collections Information

Maintenance

• weco-bot replacement:

  • Updating changelogs and pushing release tags

  • Deploying our documentation site to GitHub pages

  • Fix broken link to Google Colab #796

  • Adding and reading labels on wellcomecollection.org pull requests in service of user control over running e2e tests.

  • Make ingestor images more reliable

Other

• Identify next steps for upgrading IIIF view to Auth2

• Remove offsite requesting toggle #11076