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