University of Padua

PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)

PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's digital-collections repository, holding the institution's digitised images, documents, books and video. The data, the objects and the persistent identifiers are Padua's, and the service runs on Padua's own infrastructure at phaidra.unipd.it (phaidra.cab.unipd.it redirects there). The REST API it exposes — including its IIIF image server at /api/imageserver and its OAI-PMH endpoint at /api/oai — is the contract of the PHAIDRA open-source repository platform developed at the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api, Apache-2.0), shipped identically by other PHAIDRA institutions. The page source at phaidra.unipd.it states it itself: "This repository is powered by PHAIDRA — free open source software". The deployment is recorded here; the product's specification is not held under this slug, because it is not Padua's engineering to be credited with.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/openapi

Other Resources

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OAI-PMH
https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
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IIIF
https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/imageserver
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SourceCode
https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-padua/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-padua:phaidra-unipd
name: PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)
description: 'PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System''s digital-collections repository, holding
  the institution''s digitised images, documents, books and video. The data, the objects and the persistent
  identifiers are Padua''s, and the service runs on Padua''s own infrastructure at phaidra.unipd.it (phaidra.cab.unipd.it
  redirects there). The REST API it exposes — including its IIIF image server at /api/imageserver and
  its OAI-PMH endpoint at /api/oai — is the contract of the PHAIDRA open-source repository platform developed
  at the University of Vienna (github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api, Apache-2.0), shipped identically by other
  PHAIDRA institutions. The page source at phaidra.unipd.it states it itself: "This repository is powered
  by PHAIDRA — free open source software". The deployment is recorded here; the product''s specification
  is not held under this slug, because it is not Padua''s engineering to be credited with.'
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-note: Shared contract. Title normalises to "PHAIDRA … API" and the identical document is shipped
  by University of Vienna at services.phaidra.univie.ac.at. Self-hosting on an institution domain does
  not make a product's contract the institution's.
x-platform: PHAIDRA (University of Vienna, Apache-2.0)
humanURL: https://phaidra.unipd.it/
baseURL: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api
tags:
- Digital Collections
- Repository
- IIIF
- OAI-PMH
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/openapi
- type: OAI-PMH
  url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/oai?verb=Identify
- type: IIIF
  url: https://phaidra.unipd.it/api/imageserver
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api