20250514

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

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

• Redirect 'events/current-and-coming-up' to /events': Redirects: Events #11775

• Remove Date filter toggle from codebase #11811

• Remove filterEventsListing toggle and related code #11851

Understand and explore user needs for browsing the online collections

• Add PopupDialog component to Collections pages for user research recruitment #11850

Support researchers in discovering new parts of the collection to further their research goals

• Low-fi design exploration #11761

Insights and data inform our product decision-making

• KPI workshop: inclusive outcome #11848

• Fix 'content group' dimension in GA4 #11702

Other

• AudioPlayer QA #11824 and Audio player QA updates #11883
• Display video player in viewer (behind 'Allow viewer to render video, audio and pdfs toggle) #11519
• Display audio player in viewer (behind 'Allow viewer to render video, audio and pdfs toggle) #11520
• Link to item page for video and audio items from the work page viewer (behind 'Allow viewer to render video, audio and pdfs toggle) #11785
• More intentional thumbnail images for audio/video/pdf #11690
• Expand/collapse icon change #11861

Digital Platform

Expand and reinforce our digital preservation capabilities

• Corporate Photography 2017: Storage service deletions #5997

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Remove older concepts toggle #6007
• Concepts API: Implementation of RFC #5964
• Look at improving API / Snapshot documentation #5999

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

• Data pipeline research catch-up #6004
• Catalogue Pipeline build: Implement RFC recommendations #5984
• Consolidate merger and router #5987

Carry out discovery work associated with Wellcome Collection Systems Transformation Programme (WCSTP).

• WCSTP: Data pipeline research (Polars, Parquet, Apache Iceberg, S3 Tables) #5986
• Mimsy data extraction for migration #6005
• WCSTP Migration / Updated adapter planning #5998

Other

• Fix TEI formatting issue #5996 -- awaiting reindex
• Redirect works.wc.org and content.wc.org #6002
• Survey of Current Text Content (as found in the catalog without OCR) #6008

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Support researchers to discover new parts of the collection to further their research goals

• Related content: Measure or test approach - decide and implement #11766
• Build related content section on work pages #11767
• Theme page tags: Plan for how we will evaluate solution #11756
• Theme page tags: Create A/B test using edge lambdas #11900

Insights and data inform our product decision-making

• Changes to internal search tracking in GA4/GTM #11709

Other

• Upgrade Auth0 package #11705

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Change cypher queries for MVP person pages #6014
• On this page element #6019
• Feedback component approach #6020

Carry out discovery work associated with Wellcome Collection Systems Transformation Programme (WCSTP)

• Axiell Collections Requesting integration research #6017
• Iceberg Adapter Spike: Python script to query Calm for changes, to update an Iceberg table #6028
• Iceberg Adapter Spike: Provisioning of Iceberg table in S3, defining schema #6029

Other

• Update Miro image license #2867
• Extract ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) texts #6023
• Do novel text analysis to compare with the catalog corpus #6024
• Design and test metrics for OCR quality #6025