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  • Refresh outdated ontology in concepts pipeline to remove outdated terms #5804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

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