We are a software development team for a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health.
Digital media and services are vital to our mission, they include:
- A unified search for all our collections, both on our website and as open APIs
- Access to millions of digitised images through IIIF APIs, shared with open and permissive licences
- Long-form narrative content published at https://wellcomecollection.org/stories
We work in the open, so that others can learn from our mistakes and successes. All the services we've built in-house are open source, made available under an MIT licence.
Further information
- Service Overview
- Developer Handbook
- Requests For Comments (RFCs)
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Fortnotes (Fortnightly updates about our work)
- Incident Retrospectives
- Platform Issues
This documentation is for people who want to know how the platform is built or want to build more of it, you might also be looking for:
- developers.wellcomecollection.org is the documentation for developers who are using our APIs.
- stacks.wellcometrust.org is our Medium blog with standalone articles about our work.
- wellcomecollection.org is the public-facing site, including an images search backed by our APIs.
- Notion (Wellcome Collection Digital Product): product & design documentation, (currently private).