20241017

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

Descriptive URLS:

• Complete UID work (Content API): Update the linkResolver function to use the UID #11074, Add uid to Content API response #140

• Investigate Prismic solutions for restructuring Pages urls #11206

Deepen engagement with stories

• Agreed UX project brief

• Undertook competitor review

Maintenance

• Move Content-Api to Node20 #137

Other

• Set up and test tracking for Hard Graft guides #11142

Digital Platform

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

• Meeting held with Collections Information

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Ingest corporate archive images #1126
• Make ingestor-images tests in Catalogue Pipeline more reliable #5793

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Improve Concepts Pipeline documentation (overview, README for all service, and developer HOWTOs) #5792
• Concepts kick-off meeting held

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

• Re-architect the batcher service so that it works as a Lambda #2721
• Batcher Lambda, infrastructure and build #2728

Maintenance

• Make ingestor-images tests in Catalogue Pipeline more reliable #5793
• Update the ID Minter databases following AWS warning #5785

Other

• Always provide link to item page from work page for logged in staff #5762
• Item is restricted but page is still showing available to download #11014

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Complete transition to new url structure for pages

Deepen engagement with stories

• Run research study

• Formulate design hypotheses based on qual and quant insights

Undertake a discovery phase for a collection browse experience

• Competitive analysis

• Gather relevant insights from research with internal users (concept pages)

• Data analysis of existing concept pages, visually similar images & search behaviour

• Plan and run discovery/assumption mapping workshop with platform team

• Create research plan (inc. hotjar survey on concept pages)

Other

• Use Content API to populate stories listings #11226

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• • Complete ingesting corporate photography #5790

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

Concepts:

• Review “Use Identifiers to populate concepts pages” to determine next steps re. ‘no dead ends’ for concepts #5654
• Review and discussion of graph model [following Knowledge Graph RFC] #5801

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

• Move Catalogue Pipeline services from ECS to Lambda #5784
• Hold kick-off meeting for Systems Transformation Readiness #5786
• All active projects need a CODEOWNERS, add platform & experience Github Teams #5807
• Increase default message retention for scaling services #2737

Maintenance

• Run a reindex to pick up changes from Mon 7 afternoon

• Answer Christy’s email (10/11/24) re number of books query

Other

• Update monitoring: surface date of oldest message, show the status of deployment service

• Knowledge Graph Infrastructure Discovery #5803