20250108

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Improve the user experience of finding information on wellcomecollection.org

• Tech spike for ‘All search’ #149

• Content API addressables endpoint #153, #154, #156, #167, #168, #43

Undertake a discovery phase for a collection browse experience

• Explore UR recruitment options with existing WC users #11361

• Create recruitment brief #11313

• HotJar survey on web site collections pages with link to sign up to the user panel #11440

Deepen engagement with stories

• "Related Stories" onward journey #11433 #11439

Other

• Featured card refactor #11442

• Change ID in image galleries to avoid duplicates and fix exhibitions test #11446

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Run in-library user testing and begin analysis #5831

• Talk to internal users (staff) about concepts and themes #5832

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

• Review Collector Systems CMS #5799

• Review CollectionsIndex+ #5800

• Make relation embedder run locally with live upstream data #2782

• Replace groupedWeightedWithin with groupedWeighted in the Relation Embedder #2779

• Upgrade node projects in platform-infrastructure #5837

Other

• December User Access Review (UAR) #5847

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Improve support for Deaf audiences to access our digital content, venue & programme

• Agree sections and content #11476

• Build accordion component #11474

• Design a space in exhibition page to play the BSL leaflet video #11464

Understand and explore user needs for browsing the online collections

• Complete User Research sessions #11456

Build a comprehensive site search which meets user expectations

• Add e.g. displayType to Exhibition Highlight Guide display block #195

• Add a toggle for the "All" page changes #11486

• Add "All" endpoint to wc.org services #11487

• Integrate Content results in Search "All" page #11460

• Integrate Catalogue results in Search "All" page #11459

Deepen engagement with stories

• Update Popular Stories banner to display after 15 paragraphs #11482

Other

• Migrate webcomics/webcomic series to articles/series #11488

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Concepts user research prioritisation #5856

• AI opportunities workshop prep #5855

• Add LoC RELATED_TO edges to catalogue graph #5873

• Add LoC NARROWER_THAN edges for composite concepts to catalogue graph #5874

• Add MeSH concepts to catalogue graph #5864

• Add Wikidata to catalogue graph (LoC) #5866

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

• Future state integration requirements for WCSTP - kick-off #5854

• Run a partial reindex to 2024-11-18 of a few thousand documents #5871

• Run a full reindex to 2024-11-18 pipeline #5872

• Deploy relation embedder lambda subsystem #5840

• Upgrade node on the identity repository #5876