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Showcase: University of Applied Arts Vienna (The Angewandte) Veronika Kocher presented the decoupled systems architecture deployed at the Angewandte: Decoupled Architecture: Rather than using a single monolithic repository, the university splits workflows across four user-focused frontends that connect to PHAIDRA as the stable, permanent backend long-term preservation layer: Portfolio: A private workspace where researchers and artists document, organize, and store creative drafts. It features dynamic metadata forms that change based on the selected entry type (e.g., performances, exhibitions, theater pieces, film series). Authority controls (GND and internal databases) are embedded for clean artist metadata. Showroom: A curated public showcase profile built from user-selected Portfolio entries. This separates immediate visibility from the permanent archiving process. Users can customize their profiles, such as prioritizing exhibition listings over publications. IMAGE: An open art education image database containing high-resolution, quality-assured metadata. It supports deep zooming, Quick presentation albums, and slideshow exports (to PDF or PowerPoint) with automatically formatted captions. A custom commenting framework is used to provide metadata context on historically critical or discriminatory terms in collections. Recherche: A public search portal displaying institutional estates and collections (e.g., Peter Weibel estate, Biennale Archive Austria). It links over 80,000 artists and collections to authority standards (Getty AAT, GND, European Art Net) and feeds into cultural networks like Kulturpool and EOSC. Data Sovereignty & Metrics: The system prioritizes artist-controlled licensing and data sovereignty. The university has explicitly omitted competition tracking metrics (such as citation metrics or publication counts) from their systems, noting that metrics do not accurately reflect artistic output or quality, and introduce unhelpful competition in arts research.
