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

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