Phaidra is the platform used by the University of Padova Library System for the management and long-term preservation of digital objects.
Through the Phaidra website, users from all over the world can access rare documents or other items of historical, artistic, cultural or academic interest, many of which would otherwise be difficult or impossible to find.
Phaidra stands for Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets. It is based on Fedora open source software and is maintained by the University of Vienna, with whom the University of Padova has been collaborating since 2010. The Ca’ Foscari and Iuav universities in Venice, meanwhile, have used the Phaidra platform for publishing their own digital collections since 2014.