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A diagram showing the major services in wellcomecollection.org

Services

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

  • Powers our unified collections search.

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

  • 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.

  • : Our editorial content including stories, exhibitions, and events is stored and managed , 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 for digitised content and for born-digital content. (repos: , )

  • We make images available through , an open standard used by many libraries and museums. Our IIIF services are provided by , 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 , and will allow them to order items from the library's closed stores (pending release).

in Prismic
intranda's Goobi
Artefactual's Archivematica
goobi-infrastructure
archivematica-infrastructure
IIIF APIs
Digirati
their library membership
Storage Service:
Prismic
wellcomecollection.org:
Catalogue Pipeline:
Catalogue API: