20241114

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Deepen engagement with stories

• Analyse Hotjar survey results #11359

• Organise and run an ideation workshop with Editorial (11.11) #11358

Undertake a discovery phase for a collection browse experience

• Browse Collection competitor analysis #11372

Maintenance

• Upgrade to Slice Machine 2 #11230

• Upgrade to Next 14 #11228

• Prismic; image dimensions not being queried properly? #10853

• Stop /[index-page-uid]/[index-page-uid] rendering #11341

• Add test to make sure Cookie tables are rendered on /about-us/cookie-policy #11375

Digital Platform

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

• Met with Collections Info

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Plan concept page user research #5813

• Plan concept page survey with Flora

• Hold workshop on concepts ethics

• Strip "(DNLM)" prefixes from MeSH IDs #5819

• Updated catalogue pipeline index mapping to include concept IDs #5818

• Remove ingestor lambda from concepts pipeline and improve documentation #5815

• Refresh outdated ontology in concepts pipeline to remove outdated terms #5804

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

• Surface catalogue pipeline queues retaining messages #5809

• Review Axiell Collections CMS #5797

Maintenance

• Auth0 upgrade to Node 18 #5795

• Re-architect the batcher service so that it works as a Lambda #2721

• Store batcher topic publications in S3 for comparison #5817

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Work out best technical approach to All search #148

• Index all addressable content types

Deepen engagement with stories

• Create design props for onward journeys from stories #11360

• Decide on hypotheses to test

• Agree spec/approach for build

Undertake a discovery phase for a collection browse experience

• Recruitment: complete external and existing web site users recruitment Explore UR recruitment options with existing WC users #11361

Other

• Use Content API to populate stories listings #11226

• Stop the cache varying on _ga cookie #11391

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Complete ingesting corporate photography #5790

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Run in-library user testing and begin analysis

• Talk to internal users (staff) about concepts and themes

• Review “Use Identifiers to populate concepts pages” to determine next steps re. ‘no dead ends’ for concepts

  • Use identifiers to populate Concepts pages #5654

  • Update catalogue-api to use new contributor & subject concept filters #5821

  • Update concept pages to use concept ID for subjects & contributor based concepts (behind a toggle)

  • Scope work for updating search filters to use concept ID filters for subjects & contributors

• Complete refactoring graph model to include wikidata

• Review model opportunities

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

• Move Catalogue Pipeline services from ECS to Lambda #5784

  • Inspect batcher_lambda_output to compare lambda / ECS output #2747

  • Resolve issues arising from reindex for batcher lambda

  • Wire batcher lambda into new pipeline?

  • Plan relation-embedder to lambda

  • Support Collections Product Lines to write user needs for the systems project

  • Run ideation workshops with subject matter experts

  • Review Coeli

Maintenance

• Upgrade lambdas in platform infra repo

Other

• Move to use a features vector with 4,096 dimensions (and clean up the existing feature vectors in use)