# 20241017

## Progress against our quarterly objectives

### Digital Experience

#### Improve experience for users with access needs pre and during visit

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Descriptive URLS:

* Complete UID work (Content API): Update the linkResolver function to use the UID [#11074](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/11074), Add uid to Content API response [#140](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/content-api/issues/140)
* Investigate Prismic solutions for restructuring Pages urls [#11206](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/11206)

#### Deepen engagement with stories

* Agreed UX project brief
* Undertook competitor review

#### Maintenance

* Move Content-Api to Node20 [#137](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/content-api/issues/137)

#### Other

* Set up and test tracking for Hard Graft guides [#11142](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/storage-service/issues/1126)
* Make ingestor-images tests in Catalogue Pipeline more reliable [#5793](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5793)

#### Improve access to our collections for staff and users

* Improve Concepts Pipeline documentation (overview, README for all service, and developer HOWTOs) [#5792](https://https/github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/issues/2721)
* Batcher Lambda, infrastructure and build [#2728](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/pull/2728)

#### Maintenance

* Make ingestor-images tests in Catalogue Pipeline more reliable [#5793](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5793)
* Update the ID Minter databases following AWS warning [#5785](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5785)

Other

* Always provide link to item page from work page for logged in staff [#5762](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5762)
* Item is restricted but page is still showing available to download [#11014](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/wellcomecollection.org/issues/11226)

### Digital Platform

#### Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

* • Complete ingesting corporate photography #5790

#### Improve access to our collections for staff and users

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Concepts:

* Review “Use Identifiers to populate concepts pages” to determine next steps re. ‘no dead ends’ for concepts [#5654](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5654)
* Review and discussion of graph model \[following Knowledge Graph RFC] [#5801](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5784)
* Hold kick-off meeting for Systems Transformation Readiness [#5786](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5786)
* All active projects need a CODEOWNERS, add platform & experience Github Teams [#5807](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5807)
* Increase default message retention for scaling services [#2737](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/catalogue-pipeline/pull/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](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/platform/issues/5803)
