Repository details

PHAIDRA - University of Padua

Name of repository
PHAIDRA - University of Padua
Additional name(s)
  • Digital collections of the University of Padua
Repository URL
https://phaidra.unipd.it/
Subject(s)
Description
Phaidra (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets) is the University of Padua Library System’s platform for long-term archiving of digital collections. Phaidra hosts various types of digital objects (antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, wallcharts, maps, learning objects, films, archive material and museum objects). Phaidra offers a search facility to identify specific objects, and each object can be viewed, downloaded, used and reused to the extent permitted by law and by its associated licences. The objects in the digital collections on the Phaidra platform are sourced from libraries (in large part due to the digitisation projects promoted by the Library System itself), museums and archives at the University of Padua and other institutions, including the Ca’ Foscari University and the Università Iuav in Venice.
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
Mission statement for designated community
https://biblio.unipd.it/en/digital-library/digital-repositories/maintenance-and-development-of-the-digital-library-technological-infrastructure
Research data repository language(s)
  • Italian
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Dates

Started
2010-12-17

Institutions (1)

Institution name
University of Padua
Additional name(s)
  • Università degli Studi di Padova
Institution identifier(s)
Country
Italy
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2010

Policies (2)

Policy name
Terms of use
Policy name
Editorial policies

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (2)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration
Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (5)

Data license
other
Data license
CC
Data license
Public Domain
Data license
other
Data license
Copyrights

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • other
  • hdl
Name of the repository software
  • Fedora
Versioning
yes
Enhanced publication
no

Application programming interfaces (2)

Type
OAI-PMH
Url
https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
Type
REST
Url
https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/openapi

Metadata standards (3)

Metadata standard
Dublin Core
Metadata standard
MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
Metadata standard
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas

Remarks

Remarks
CTS certified until 2022. Starting in 2026, Phaidra adopts a bibliographic metadata schema modelled in RDF (Resource Description Framework) according to Linked Data principles, ensuring unique identification of resources, explicit semantic relationships, and interoperability with other data graphs on the Web. Metadata is expressed in JSON-LD, a standard RDF serialisation that favours integration with web applications and data exchange. Many fields use descriptors from controlled vocabularies, mostly available in the Phaidra Vocabulary Server (https://vocab.phaidra.org/). For an overview of metadata fields, you can consult the Metadata fields overview page (https://phaidra.unipd.it/metadata-fields-help). Digital objects uploaded before 2026 remain described according to the previously adopted data model Universität Wien metadata - UWmetadata (https://phaidra.unipd.it/static/phaidra-uwmetadata.pdf), resulting from the expansion of the Learning Object Metadata standard, LOM (1484.12.1-2002 IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata) and the fusion combination of categories and elements derived or customised from different metadata schemas, and as such can be placed among the examples of LOM application profiles.
Entry date
2019-02-28
Last update
2026-05-21
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re3data.org: PHAIDRA - University of Padua; editing status 2026-05-21; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R31NJMHU last accessed: 2026-06-17