Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library in London that explores health and human experience. I worked on Wellcome Collection’s Digital Platform team from January 2017 to October 2023, helping to build their website and backing digital services.
Below are some articles I wrote while working at Wellcome:
Hyperfocus and hobbies
The power of ADHD-associated hyperfocus and how I’ve become wary of feeding it too often.
Wellcome Collection’s approach to digital verification
How we ensure the safety, security and integrity of the files in Wellcome’s digital collections.
Building Wellcome Collection’s new archival storage service
How we built the new cloud-based storage system for holding an ever-growing digital archive.
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How moving to the cloud took Wellcome’s digital collections to new heights
Building our own platform allowed us to make decisions based on what’s best for the collections, and not the limitations of our digital infrastructure.
Building Wellcome Collection’s new unified catalogue search
Collaboration between our digital and collections teams helped to build a single search box for all of our catalogues.
Storing multiple, human-readable versions of BagIt bags
How we use the fetch.txt file in a bag to track multiple copies of an object in our digital archive.
Using Loris for IIIF at Wellcome
How we use Loris to provide a IIIF Image API for browsing our collections at Wellcome–how it runs in AWS, store our high-resolution images, and monitor the service.