| 01-12-2018 |
Switched to v2 API containing Digital Images and Pictures only |
| 24-10-2019 |
Sort by relevance / date ascending / date descending added to search results |
| 22-11-2019 |
Work-type filter added to search results |
| 22-11-2019 |
Opt-in relevance ranker added to /works |
| 06-12-2019 |
Date filter added to search results |
| 20-12-2019 |
Images only toggle added to search results: you can toggle between all collection and images only |
| 22-01-2020 |
NewsletterPromo and refreshed /newsletter page split testing |
| 29-01-2020 |
Ephemera made available to /works (in search, filter as format, and view) |
| 07-02-2020 |
Licence info now coming from the catalogue API only, none from IIIF manifest, which also adds licence info to works which didn't have it because it wasn't in the IIIF manifest. |
| 10-02-2020 |
Image search: selected image displays in a modal |
| 11-02-2020 |
Explainer text for visually similar images added to image modal |
| 05-03-2020 |
Alert message added to Visit Us for potential closure (covid) |
| 05-03-2020 |
The books on Stories were updated |
| 18-03-2020 |
Updating the homepage with text about the closure (covid) |
| 19-03-2020 |
Simplified digitised content component available on /works pages |
| 19-03-2020 |
Asian manuscripts made available on /works |
| 26-03-2020 |
Single images can now be downloaded from the viewer |
| 01-04-2020 |
Image size in pixels made visible to downloaders |
| 29-04-2020 |
Content links on home page for Editorial team can give visibility to activities that fall outside our normal programme |
| 24-06-2020 |
Filtered out restricted and closed digitised items |
| 14-08-2020 |
Overview button removed from digitised works page |
| 17-08-2020 |
Image search with linked images and works released |
| 23-09-2020 |
Covid-19 reopening information added including update on homepage, https://wellcomecollection.org/covid-welcome-back and https://wellcomecollection.org/covid-book-your-ticket
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| 07-10-2020 |
Wellcome Collection site updated for covid reopening |
| 12-10-2020 |
More made available to search: search results will include archive records, and all the bibliographic records, now including physical items
the search form now includes a filter for online / in library
the works page for archive items includes new components for orientating people with an archive and allowing them to browse the archive
new Collections top level section, and /works now as the search results page
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| 29-10-2020 |
date filters deployed |
| 04-11-2020 |
Wellcome Collection site updated for covid reclosing at 5pm on 4th November 2020 |
| 12-11-2020 |
Able to search for ISSN; ISSN displays on works pages |
| 12-11-2020 |
Able to search for internal dig code; dig code does not display on works page as is for internal use only |
| 17-11-2020 |
Open with advisory notices added to viewer |
| 17-11-2020 |
Thumbnails show in search results for all work types, not just pictures and digital images |
| 04-12-2020 |
Improvements to search UI including more obvious Catalogue and Images tabs, filters removed from /works/{id} page, adding a message when there are no image search results |
| 23-02-2021 |
More filters added to catalogue search: contributors, subjects, genres, languages |
| 05-03-2021 |
Licence filter added to image search |
| 11-03-2021 |
Header part of primary section pages Visit Us, What's on, Stories, Collections, and Get involved (forthcoming): removed background images, using promos images to show what's on those pages. |
| 17-03-2021 |
More filters - Genres and Contributors - added to image search |
| March 2021 |
Redirects for wl.org put in place to go to wc.org |
| April 2021 |
Viewer: search within, navigate by document structure |
| April 2021 |
Online resource links made available |
| 14-04-2021 |
WL digitised item pages redirected to wc.org |
| 30-04-2021 |
Global navigation changes in header and footer: What we do replaced by new section Get involved; About us moved from What we do section to header and footer global navigation |
| 03-06-2021 |
Holdings added to works pages |
| 17-06-2021 |
Search performance improvement by turning down fuzziness; archives.wellcomelibrary.org redirected to wc.org |
| 29-07-2021 |
Items information displaying on works pages (request button links to Encore) |
| 19-11-2021 |
Tei are enabled by default now. As an example this work is a calm work that is now redirected to tei https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xv6yyvj5
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| 19-11-2021 |
Reference numbers are now queryable in the same way as we treat identifiers e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/works?query=2013i
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| 17-12-2021 |
Home page and what's on journeys updated, requesting disabled, for covid closure from Friday 17 December 18.00 |
| 25-01-2022 |
Wellcome Collection reopened to public after December 2021 covid closure |
| 20-01-2022 |
Databases page updated with OpenAthens links |
| 17-02-2022 |
Featured Books on /stories can now be content managed by the Editorial team |
| 08-03-2022 |
Requesting for existing library members put live |
| 09-03-2022 |
Beta label and link on Collections page (/works) removed |
| 07-04-2022 |
All site users moved onto secure cookies |
| 28-04-2022 |
Location filtering is now more flexible. Was online or in the library. Now In the library is split into open shelves and closed stores |
| 28-04-2022 |
It’s now possible to submit the search form without putting in a query |
| 16-05-2022 |
Encore (https://search.wellcomelibrary.org) redirected to https://wellcomecollection.org/collections/
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| 25-05-2022 |
Replaced Helvetica with Inter font |
| 31-05-2022 |
Toggle added to allow turning off requesting |
| 06-06-2022 |
Ticketing for hybrid (in venue and online) events added |
| 15-06-2022 |
Requesting: pickup date dropdown added |
| 06-07-2022 |
Simplified image rendering and improved image performance |
| 20-07-2022 |
Sign up made live on https://wellcomecollection.org/signup and via the library membership page at https://wellcomecollection.org/pages/X_2eexEAACQAZLBi
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| 08-08-2022 |
OPAC http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org redirected to https://wellcomecollection.org/works for external users (internal users/those on the VPN can still access http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org) |
| 13-09-2022 |
Image search results as new image grid |
| 26-09-2022 |
Concepts pages put on production e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/concepts/rkxvnhxt
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| 13-10-2022 |
Exhibition guides brought out from behind a toggle |
| 23-11-2022 |
This month we migrated from using IIIF2 to IIIF3 in the viewer |
| 09-12-2022 |
Physical shop reopened (not sure what changed on the web site) |
| 25-01-2023 |
Chinese spam starts appearing in search terms |
| 30-01-2023 |
Search for all site content has been taken out from behind a toggle (but you still need to know the correct URL to be able to access the pages) |
| 09-02-2023 |
Complete snapshots of the images API made available similar to the snapshots for the works API |
| 20-02-2023 |
Search redirected from https://wellcomecollection.org/works to https://wellcomecollection.org/search with global search in the header. Global search deployed. |
| 03-04-2023 |
New story format, short film, added to web site e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZCveVxQAAB3yVIsY
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| 25-04-2023 |
Updated search box on Collections landing and works pages to align with search box elsewhere on the site |
| 05-03-2023 |
Types/Techniques (genres) now have concept pages, e.g. songs
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| 26-05-2023 |
Implemented spam detection heuristic #9857, #9866. Heuristic blocks search but does not block site page views. |
| 07-06-2023 |
Accession numbers are now displayed and searchable on wc.org, e.g. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c9ygfnxh
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| 09-06-2023 |
Filters for stories by format https://wellcomecollection.org/search/stories
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| 19-06-2023 |
Item viewer made available to use when javascript is disabled |
| 20-06-2023 |
Images search can now be filtered by year https://wellcomecollection.org/search/images
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| 03-07-2023 |
Image search can be sorted by relevance, oldest to newest or newest to oldest https://wellcomecollection.org/search/images
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| 12-07-2023 |
The main viewer now works without javascript, which is better for users without javascript (and is less code for us to maintain) |
| 17-07-23 |
Filters for stories search by Contributor(s) https://wellcomecollection.org/search/stories. You can filter through the highest 20 contributors of that individual search. (i.e - a blank search will list the overall highest 20 contributors). |
| 31-07-2023 |
Text to speech with Amazon Polly made available on production on 10 articles for testing #1031
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| 07-08-2023 |
Total user numbers and Collections users are now reported with a reduction for spammers |
| 14-08-2023 |
Updated newsletter promo deployed with new design and additional functionality to opt in to marketing consent #10069
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| 12-09-2023 |
Text to speech with Amazon Polly removed from production after inconconclusive experiment results. |
| 18-12-2023 |
Added rules to Web Application Firewall (WAF) to reduce bots/spam #10510
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| 09-04-2024 |
Events added to site search (to join searching the catalogue, images and stories) |