20250219

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

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

Events can now be filtered by access type (e.g. audio described) and can be searched for e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/search/events?query=british+sign+language

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

  • Update BSL icons #11516

  • Agree sections and content for Exhibition page accessibility information #11476

Understand and explore user needs for browsing the online collections

  • Data analysis of existing browse tools and user behaviour #11316

  • Analysis of search terms #11571

  • Traffic and user behaviour on Collection landing page #11617

  • Analysis of survey results #11457

Build a comprehensive site search which meets user expectations

All search is available to try out behind the Modified All search page toggle

  • Modify copy on global searchbars #11546

  • Determine Partial "no results" state in "All" search #11463

  • Numbers of results changes and formatting #11572

  • Add line underneath tabs in search index #11575

  • Add access filters to events search front-end #11467

  • Image results on all search page have incorrect tooltip ('open modal window') #11598

  • QA - all search #11581

  • Index Exhibitions / write an RFC #208

Other

  • Remove polyfill(.io) #10697

  • Display audio players when there are partially restricted items #11566

  • Redundant horizontal scroll bar on exhibition pages when exhibition highlights are expanded #11150

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

  • Run the corporate photography script for 2017 items #5908

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

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

  • Add HAS_SOURCE_CONCEPT edges to the graph #5899

  • Add automated deployment to catalogue graph #5887

  • Add Wikidata unit tests #5898

  • Redesign theme pages (person) #5895

  • Consolidate/look at theme page types #5894

  • Move catalogue-graph into catalogue-pipeline repository #5902

  • Copy catalogue-graph code into catalogue-pipeline, keeping the history #5903

  • Add more Wikidata edges into the catalogue graph #5907

  • Redeploy catalogue-graph infrastructure to use the catalogue VPC in the platform account #5904

  • RFC for catalogue-graph recorder service #5913

  • Plan how to remove duplicate concept IDs #5910

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

  • Upgrade ES reporting cluster to v8.17.1 #5915

  • Update ubuntu-20 GitHub runner #5922

  • Upgrade elasticsearch-log-forwarder to Node 20 #5929

  • Reinstate missing archive tree (fix relation embedder) #5914

  • Bot traffic mitigation #5919

  • Finalise wellcomecollection.org local API development #5928

  • AWS Identity Center updates #5930

  • Provision Identity Center permissions for 3rd party devs and digital production #5932

  • Remove Firebreak Collection Search ChatBot #5937

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

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

  • Add BSL leaflet video to Exhibition Page #11465

  • Exhibition page accessibility section update #11173

  • Update yellow box content for exhibitions #11628

  • Re-order exhibition page components #11629

  • Exhibition access content microcopy should reflect what's available #11495

Understand and explore user needs for browsing the online collections

  • Analysis of User Research interviews #11458

  • Organise testing for prototype #11475

  • Plan and prepare materials for design sprint #11466

Build a comprehensive site search which meets user expectations

  • Set up tags and events in GTM to track clicks on 'All catalogue results' and 'All images' links in new catalogue and image results box #11621

Other

  • Iterate design for in-page stories component #11633

  • Remove popular stories component code #11635

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

  • Corporate Photograph 2017: Mediagraph deletions #5940

  • Corporate Photograph 2017: Editorial Photography Bucket deletions #5941

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

  • Concepts API RFC: Updates for improved access #5934

  • Reindex to remove duplicate concept ids #5912

  • Upgrade Concepts API to Node 20 #5935

  • Add HAS_SOURCE_CONCEPT edges from label-derived concepts via alternative source labels #5933

  • Person concept analysis #5906

  • Implement Catalogue Graph Ingestor Loader #5944

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

  • Future state integration for WCSTP - 'as is' and 'to be' #5854

  • Address Critical Vulnerabilities, Sprint 4 Issue #5936

  • Switch off Ask Henry #5921

  • Clean up AWS Identity Center permissions #5938

  • Codify WAF changes #5939

  • Implement Catalogue Graph Ingestor Indexer #5945

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