Hey People,
In two days we will have the first community call of 2026. Please find the schedule below. I am really looking forward to the contribution from Padua.
16:00 PHAIDRA Community by community manager Ben van ‘t Ende Where did we achieve in 2025, and where could we be going for this year?
16:05 News from our project lead Raman Ganguly
16:15 New website by designer Ádám Nyitrai
16:20 PHAIDRAcon’25 videos by Ádám Nyitrai
16:25 Announcing PHAIDRAcon’26 - Theme, date, place by Eva Gergely
16:30 OER (Open Educational Resources) - recap of the OER Barcamp 2026 #reOPEN by Claudia Hackl
16:35 Padua News and Showcase by Lorisa Andreoli and Mariagrazia Campello
The showcase is about the Laura Lanzieri Eritrea Collection (https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/collections/fondo_lanzieri). The Laura Lanzieri Collection is a set of photographs from colonial Eritrea, approximately dating from 1930 to 1960, donated to the History Library in 2019 by Ms Lanzieri (Rome 1956 - Padua 2022).
16:50 Questions, interaction and closing
The call is open to everybody. Please join us.
The link to the ZOOM call is here: Launch Meeting - Zoom
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Thanks, everybody, and especially our speakers, for joining our first community call of 2026.
The community call covered several key updates and showcases.
- PHAIDRA Community: Community manager Ben van 't Ende opened the call by highlighting future plans for 2026, including the Epistemicast podcast, closer cooperation with Fedora, and a strong focus on open education and increasing community interaction.
- Project News: Project lead Raman Ganguly reflected on PHAIDRA’s 18-year history and its growing adoption. PHAIDRA went online exactly 18 years ago on the day of this community call. Raman emphasized the strong technical relationship with Fedora, noting that PHAIDRA will host the European Fedora camp again in September, and discussed the successful ongoing integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) alongside traditional research data management.
- PHAIDRAcon’25 Videos and New Website: Designer Ádám Nyitrai announced that the recorded sessions from PHAIDRAcon’25 are being uploaded to their YouTube channel, complete with timestamps for easier navigation. He also shared that a team of interns is working on a phased rollout for a redesigned phaidra.org website.
- Announcing PHAIDRAcon’26: Eva Gergely premiered the brand-new PHAIDRAcon website and announced that the next conference will take place on October 29 in Vienna, preceded by a partner meeting on October 28. The central theme for the 2026 conference will around “digital sovereignty”. You can already register and the Call for Papers is available too.
- OER Barcamp Recap: Claudia Hackl provided a summary of the recent OER (Open Educational Resources) Barcamp in Vienna, which brought together over 100 participants from 29 Austrian higher education institutions. A major takeaway was the recognition of repositories as a core infrastructure layer that needs to be deeply integrated into active teaching workflows, rather than functioning merely as static archives.
- Padua Showcase: Mariagrazia Campello and Lorisa Andreoli presented the Laura Lanzieri Eritrea Collection, a digitized album of 356 photographs and postcards from colonial Eritrea dating from the 1930s to the 1960s. They detailed the collection’s robust metadata schema within PHAIDRA, showcasing how images were classified by subjects like local infrastructure, flora, and ethnic groups, and how historical publishers were integrated into Wikidata to increase visibility.
The call concluded with a reminder to continue conversations on this forum.
Thanks for the summary @benvantende , and also for being organizing the community call!
Here’s the official YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumMFu0h83Y (a few seconds are missing at the beginning, but that’s OK). Looking forward to the next call!
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Here is the presentation of Laura Lanzieri Eritrea Collection.
PHAIDRA_Community Call_160426.pptx.pdf (7.8 MB)
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Wonderful, thank you so much!