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Fare-Wellcome Collection
After nearly seven years, it’s time for something new.
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.
Creating animated GIFs from fruit and veg
Some Python code for turning MRI scans of fruit and veg into animated GIFs.
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.
Replicating Wellcome Collection’s digital archive to Azure Blob Storage
How and why we keep copies of Wellcome’s digital collections in multiple cloud storage providers.
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.
Digital preservation at Wellcome Collection
Slides from a presentation about our processes, practices, and tools.
Peering through MRI scans of fruit and veg
What do you see when you pass fruit and vegetables through an MRI scanner? And how many animated GIFs can you make?
Creating a data store from S3 and DynamoDB
A new storage layer for large records in the Catalogue pipeline.
Getting helpful CloudWatch alarms in Slack
How we use AWS Lambda to send messages about our CloudWatch alarms to Slack, and some ways we add context and information to make those messages as helpful as possible.
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.