20241002

Progress against our quarterly objectives

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

• Exhibition guides: New triggers/tags for exhibition page tracking #11159, Change audio duration and video duration fields to be minutes:seconds #11158, Stop supporting legacy Exhibition Guides QR Codes + remove egWork toggle #11131, Copy updates to Exhibition Guides #11174, 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 #11172

Maintenance

• Look into adding pa11y checks as a PR test #11162

• Automate Slack flags when Prismic linting errors are found #11202

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Automate touchable retries #29

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

• Metadata visibility: Ownership and custodial history [MARC 561] - discovery #5758

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 #5779

• Grafana Monitoring — remove public access from Kubernetes API #5769

• Enable Scala Steward to bump scala-libs versions #5787

• Switch to using Sonatype for releasing scala-libs #5780

Maintenance

• weco-bot: Deploy our documentation site to GitHub pages, Broken link to Google Colab from developers.wellcomecollection.org #796, Manage e2e PR labels on wc.org without weco-bot #11177, Set up workflow to document Miro suppressions #37, chore(deps): Non-AWS dependency updates #1121

• Matcher / merger issues (September 2024) #2701

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 #10853

• Migrate deprecated content types #11127

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 #5790

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Review documentation relating to Knowledge Graph and Concepts #5789

• Improve Concepts Pipeline documentation (overview, README for all service, and developer HOWTOs) #5792

• 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) #5784, #2721

• Deploy lambda batcher service lambda in catalogue pipeline repo & reindex TBD (Sprint 2, Q1 2024/25) #5794

Maintenance

• Auth0 upgrade to Node 18 #5795

• Make ingestor images more reliable #5793

• ID Minter database upgrade #5785