Wellcome Collection

We are a software development team for a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health.

Digital media and services are vital to our mission, they include:

• A unified search for all our collections, both on our website and as open APIs

• Access to millions of digitised images through IIIF APIs, shared with open and permissive licences

• Long-form narrative content published at https://wellcomecollection.org/stories

We work in the open, so that others can learn from our mistakes and successes. All the services we've built in-house are open source, made available under an MIT licence.

Further information

• Service Overview

• Developer Handbook

• Requests For Comments (RFCs)

• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

• Fortnotes (Fortnightly updates about our work)

• Incident Retrospectives

• Platform Issues

This documentation is for people who want to know how the platform is built or want to build more of it, you might also be looking for:

• developers.wellcomecollection.org is the documentation for developers who are using our APIs.

• stacks.wellcometrust.org is our Medium blog with standalone articles about our work.

• wellcomecollection.org is the public-facing site, including an images search backed by our APIs.

• Notion (Wellcome Collection Digital Product): product & design documentation, (currently private).

This page is available in GitHub and GitBook.