Service Overview

A diagram showing the major services in wellcomecollection.org

Services

• wellcomecollection.org: The Wellcome Collection website is the public face of our digital offering, and it pulls in content from a variety of services.

• Catalogue API: Powers our unified collections search.

• Catalogue Pipeline: A data a pipeline that combines data from different library and archive catalogues.

• Storage Service: Our storage service is the long-term preservation repository for our digital collections. It keeps our files in cloud storage providers, stores multiple copies for redundancy, and verifies every copy is stored correctly.

• Prismic: Our editorial content including stories, exhibitions, and events is stored and managed in Prismic, we use the Prismic API to fetch content and display it on the site.

• We have workflow systems that process new content before it's uploaded to the storage service. Currently we use intranda's Goobi for digitised content and Artefactual's Archivematica for born-digital content. (repos: goobi-infrastructure, archivematica-infrastructure)

• We make images available through IIIF APIs, an open standard used by many libraries and museums. Our IIIF services are provided by Digirati, and fetch images from the storage service. This includes both the APIs and the pre-processing required to make images available.

• Our account services allow users to manage their library membership, and will allow them to order items from the library's closed stores (pending release).