PHAIDRA is innovative university system for archiving and managing of digital objects. It enables to professors and associates of the University to upload, by themselves, their scientific papers, publications and other documents in the system for permanent hosting.
System alouds to deposit Ph.D. thesis, master thesis, final exams and other published and unpublished papers, and to protect them by copyright legislation. It is possible to archive documents revelant for educational, scientific, administrative and organizational work of the University, and different forms of digital objects: pictures, audio and video files, links etc. Objects are described with standardized metadata and all fields are searchable. It is possible to change or add metadata, but it is not possible to change the object. Every object receives the permanent link or permanent identifier, which enables citation. Objects can be connected in collections, with their own links which can easily be forwarded.
All employees of the University can use PHAIDRA system actively, but also students and others with necessary authorization. Authorized users have privileges to archive objects and to manage them, also to define if the object will be accessible worldwide or only for particular group of users. However, metadata are always visible to all internet users.
Law regulations on copyright are incorporated in the system. Authorized users can access and choose different licence models which can be easily applied.
Following the principles of integrity, authenticity, interoperability, confidentiality and availability, the data in PHAIDRA are:

1. Long-term archived
2. Permanently secured
3. Classified
4. Described by metadata
5. Available worldwide

PHAIDRA preserves data about research, educational work and organization of the University. It enables data managing, flexible use of resources and facilitate location or retrieval of archived digital objects.

Five reasons for PHAIDRA:
1) Free and open access. Access to system is available to all members of the University (teachers and students). Active use of PHAIDRA (archiving objects) is possible for authorized users with account. Content search is free for all internet users without login.
2) Possibility of citation. All objects have permanent link, which is available worldwide and can be cited or forwarded. Through the link it can be received main data about object, and the object can be overviewed or downloaded.
3) Flexibility. PHAIDRA is a stable database for management, research and teaching, and it offers possibility for further flexible use of resources. Authorized users can, by themselves, at any moment, lock their objects so that they can be visible only for particular groups of users.
4) Clear legislative rules. PHAIDRA ensures the archived objects and offers them law guaranties. Models of licences are incorporated and can be choose very simple.
5) Reliable long term archiving. PHAIDRA is organized as a system which enables long term archiving in simple manner. System supports formats convenient for permanent storage. It is also a way to establish interoperability with other systems.

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PHAIDRA supports formats suitable for long term archiving. Recommended formats are indicated in the table.

Text •  recommended   .pdf(PDF/A),.tei •  possible   .tex,.html •  not good   .doc,.ppt,.indd,.qxd
Picture •  recommended   .tiff •  possible   .jpg •  not good   .psd,.bmp,.gif,.png
Audio •  recommended   .wav •  possible   .mp3 •  not good   .wma,.aac,.ogg
Video •  preporučeno   .avi,.mpeg2 •  moguće •  not good   .wmv,.flv,.mov