Phaidra fact sheet

Phaidra - Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets • Goals: Phaidra is used - as a long-term preservation system through the assignment of persistent identifiers (permanent links) - to manage and store any kind of digital object (digital born and analogue) that is developed in an academic environment: in the fields of a) research (e.g. articles, papers, videos, audios, containers), b) learning & teaching (e.g. learning objects) and c) administration (e.g. forms) at University of Vienna, - to make abovementioned assets per default freely accessible (according to the wishes of the owner of the object and the therefore assigned access rights). The objects are provided with licenses. - to provide tools to manage / view / edit the assets (e.g. e_book viewer). • Target groups: according to the digital information policy of the University of Vienna, there are three main target groups: all members of the University, all students of the University, guests. Detailed: researchers, lecturers, the students of the University, University management, professional agencies, national institutions (cultural heritage), companies, cooperating researchers from outside University, other guests. • Context, Scenario: Phaidra provides a good frame in order to - implement an open access policy, - implement e-learning strategies, realize a better evidence of the University’s achievements in research and teaching and eventually - to shape research results into collections of digital objects. • Applications: specialized tools for accessing, viewing, editing and eventually storing digital assets https://phaidra.univie.ac.at