20241002

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

Modify Born Digital detection logic

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

Exhibition guides: New triggers/tags for exhibition page tracking , Change audio duration and video duration fields to be minutes:seconds , Stop supporting legacy Exhibition Guides QR Codes + remove egWork toggle , Copy updates to Exhibition Guides , Bring exhibition guides work out from behind toggle

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

Add Prismic linting test to check for documents without UIDs

Maintenance

Look into adding pa11y checks as a PR test
Automate Slack flags when Prismic linting errors are found

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

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

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

Maintenance

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

Descriptive URLS:

Complete UID work (Content API)
Investigate Prismic options for restructuring URLS for pages

Deepen engagement with stories

Agree UX project brief
Analyse data and past research to draw insights (what we know, what we don’t)
Undertake competitor review
Design research brief

Other

Upskill/knowledge share on Auth2 and Content API

Digital Platform

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

Jonathan to arrange follow-on meeting with Collections Information

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

Concepts kick-off meeting

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

Maintenance

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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Born-digital collection is available to the public

Modify Born Digital detection logic

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

Exhibition guides: New triggers/tags for exhibition page tracking , Change audio duration and video duration fields to be minutes:seconds , Stop supporting legacy Exhibition Guides QR Codes + remove egWork toggle , Copy updates to Exhibition Guides , Bring exhibition guides work out from behind toggle

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

Add Prismic linting test to check for documents without UIDs

Maintenance

Look into adding pa11y checks as a PR test
Automate Slack flags when Prismic linting errors are found

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

Automate touchable retries

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

Metadata visibility: Ownership and custodial history [MARC 561] - discovery

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

Grafana Monitoring — refactor Terraform stacks for easy state management across teams
Grafana Monitoring — remove public access from Kubernetes API
Enable Scala Steward to bump scala-libs versions
Switch to using Sonatype for releasing scala-libs

Maintenance

weco-bot: Deploy our documentation site to GitHub pages, Broken link to Google Colab from developers.wellcomecollection.org , Manage e2e PR labels on wc.org without weco-bot , Set up workflow to document Miro suppressions , chore(deps): Non-AWS dependency updates
Matcher / merger issues (September 2024)

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

Descriptive URLS:

Complete UID work (Content API)
Investigate Prismic options for restructuring URLS for pages

Deepen engagement with stories

Agree UX project brief
Analyse data and past research to draw insights (what we know, what we don’t)
Undertake competitor review
Design research brief

Other

Upskill/knowledge share on Auth2 and Content API
Prismic; image dimensions not being queried properly
Migrate deprecated content types

Digital Platform

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

Jonathan to arrange follow-on meeting with Collections Information

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

Complete ingesting corporate photography

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

Review documentation relating to Knowledge Graph and Concepts
Improve Concepts Pipeline documentation (overview, README for all service, and developer HOWTOs)
Concepts kick-off meeting

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

Re-architect batcher service so that it works as a Lambda (includes RFC/ADR for approach) ,
Deploy lambda batcher service lambda in catalogue pipeline repo & reindex TBD (Sprint 2, Q1 2024/25)

Maintenance

Auth0 upgrade to Node 18
Make ingestor images more reliable
ID Minter database upgrade

Automate touchable retries

Metadata visibility: Ownership and custodial history [MARC 561] - discovery

Grafana Monitoring — refactor Terraform stacks for easy state management across teams

Grafana Monitoring — remove public access from Kubernetes API

Enable Scala Steward to bump scala-libs versions

Switch to using Sonatype for releasing scala-libs

weco-bot: Deploy our documentation site to GitHub pages, Broken link to Google Colab from developers.wellcomecollection.org , Manage e2e PR labels on wc.org without weco-bot , Set up workflow to document Miro suppressions , chore(deps): Non-AWS dependency updates

Matcher / merger issues (September 2024)

Prismic; image dimensions not being queried properly

Migrate deprecated content types

Complete ingesting corporate photography

Review documentation relating to Knowledge Graph and Concepts

Improve Concepts Pipeline documentation (overview, README for all service, and developer HOWTOs)

Re-architect batcher service so that it works as a Lambda (includes RFC/ADR for approach) ,

Deploy lambda batcher service lambda in catalogue pipeline repo & reindex TBD (Sprint 2, Q1 2024/25)

Auth0 upgrade to Node 18

Make ingestor images more reliable

ID Minter database upgrade

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