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Even in the current situation, students of library science must gain professional experience in libraries under often difficult conditions. Libraries, in turn, should not lose the important input and new ideas that interns can provide because of the increased security measures. Many students choose to complete a part of their compulsory internship in the department of Repository Management PHAIDRA-Services of the University of Vienna every year. To continue this tradition during the crisis, a new concept for online internships was developed in the summer of 2020. The first group of four students from the Humboldt University of Berlin completed a four-week remote internship in October-November 2020. The paper discusses the concept for the virtual internship, as well as the feedback from both colleagues and interns. Lessons learned are presented in order to help other libraries that are considering the shift to virtual internships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper illustrates an initial step towards the 'semantic enrichment' of University of Vienna's Phaidra repository as one of the valuable and up-to-date strategies able to enhance its role and usage. Firstly, a technical report points out the choice made in a local context, i.e. the deployment of the vocabulary server iQvoc instead of the formerly used SKOSMOS, explaining design decisions behind the current tool and additional features that the implementation required. Afterwards, some modelling characteristics of the local LOD controlled vocabulary are described according to SKOS documentation and best practices, highlighting which approaches can be pursued for rendering a LOD KOS available in the Web as well as issues that can be possibly encountered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the complex nature of archival images, it is an ongoing challenge to establish a metadata architecture and metadata standards that are easy to navigate and take into consideration future requirements. This contribution will present a use case in the humanities based on the Digital Research Archive for Byzantium (DiFAB) at the University of Vienna. By tracing one monument and its photographic documentation, this paper will highlight some issues concerning metadata for images of material culture, such as: various analog and digital forms of documentation; available thesauri - including problems of historical geography, multilingualism, and culturally specific terminologies -; and the importance of both precise and imprecise dating for cultural historians and their research archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]