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Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Experience

Explore new ways for researchers to browse the collection

• The new 'New Online' page showcases some of the recently digitised works from the collection for our users to browse. It's linked from the Collections landing page and you can explore it here https://wellcomecollection.org/collections/new-online

• Catalogue-pipeline: enable work id filter #12510

• Reindex METS #12504

• createdDateSortRequest in catalogue-api #12479

• Integrate "newly digitised works" page #12485

• Analysis for Browse Collections Prototype Pop-up Testing #12388

• Update page titles on theme pages to reflect new label changes #12508

• Update 'w' graphics on collections landing page to 'll''s #12469

• Decide direction and scope for thematic browsing next steps #12466

Increase the quality, visibility and accessibility of access information and resources to support venue visits

• Conduct usability testing on Accessibility information #12320

• Engage with participants with access needs for usability testing #12314

• Accessibility prototype for testing #12492

Other

• Migrate Kibana dashboards to Tableau/Looker Studio #12317

• OCR highlight colour has low contrast #12069

• Make focus state accessible on all backgrounds #12517

Progress against our quarterly objectives

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Work improvements enabled by catalogue pipeline graph access #6222

• Integrate catalogue graph into the works pipeline #6089

• Use a logging lib in catalogue-graph and ebsco-adapter-iceberg projects #6135

• Standardise and deduplicate concept filters/aggregations #6223

• Standardise concept labels on works #6206

• Clean up relation embedder code, related Scala services, and infra after new works index rollout #6221

Implementation of Wellcome Collection Systems Transformation Programme (WCSTP)

• AxC Adapter refinement: authentication, window loading, record IDs, tags #6216

• AxC Integration: Decide an XSLT transform for exhibitions data set #6200

• Add infrastructure for Axiell adapter state machine deployment #6215

• Mimsy data export DATE_MADE #6213

• Make a plan for dealing with failures in the new adapter/transformer #6151

Other

• Terraform churn fix #6225

• Create an IAM user for external access #6224

• Decouple index and pipeline dates in rank tests #6220

• API tolerant to key ES credentials update#6226

Focusing on next

Digital Experience

Explore new ways for researchers to browse the collection

• Change WorkCards in New Online to work with API #12536

• Develop hierarchy of subjects #12558

• Set up HotJar recordings and heat maps for Collections Landing Page #12465

Increase the quality, visibility and accessibility of access information and resources to support venue visits

• Figure out and fix identification of which section the user is currently on #12563

• Allow for a two column layout #12561

• Control slices container width to allow for no horizontal padding #12562

• Iterate content design of access information #12319

Achieve visual consistency on wellcomecollection.org

• Remove design system toggles #12560

Other

• Add noindex to Inclusive Design Toolkit #12441

• We currently add HotJar to every page #12057

Digital Platform

Improve access to our collections for staff and users

• Write a blog post about the graph pipeline #6236

Implementation of Wellcome Collection Systems Transformation Programme (WCSTP)

• AxC: Implement transform for public catalogue #6203

Other

• In Rank, upgrade to use UV and python ≥3.12; verify local & CI builds; optionally migrate CI to GitHub Actions #118

• Filezilla key for S3 access #6235