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

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