Creation of a flexible database for the processing, documentation and further utilisation of ISR documents on nuclear energy (NukArch)

The independent, scientific expertise in the field of nuclear safety / nuclear risk, which is based at the Institute for Safety and Risk Sciences (ISR for short), has been a unique selling point in Austria and at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna for many years. Accordingly, technical documents on the nuclear safety of nuclear facilities can be found at the Institute, which are otherwise unavailable or very difficult to obtain in Austria. Due to the advanced age of the people who ran the Institute in its early days and therefore know the provenance and significance of the individual documents, it is important to carry out the archiving work now so that this accumulated university knowledge, which is unique in Europe, is preserved and future generations can benefit from it. In view of the fact that Austria played a leading role in the endeavour to achieve a nuclear-free Central Europe, these documents also represent a part of Austrian history and identity. Some of this knowledge (external and internal documents, reports, publications, etc.), which has been generated since the ISR was founded, is stored on physical data carriers (paper, CDs, discs and other image and sound carriers) in the ISR archives and can currently only be accessed with great effort. The main focus of this project is to make this knowledge and the accumulated data available to the ISR, the BMK and the public in a simple way as a search engine and research tool. To this end, a large part of the material is to be digitised and entered into a flexible database.