Data

Photos by Documenta Natura (1987–2010)

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport, Environment, Transport

The pictures of the Documenta Natura Foundation, which existed from 1987-2010, made it their business to photographically document changes in the Swiss landscape. The photographic...

Maps from the collection “Magnificent Atlases” with title cartouches

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities

A selection of about 1930 maps from the collection "Magnificent Atlases: From the Beginnings to the Golden Age” were...

Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment, Economy and finance

The DDS are a research project aiming to edit key documents on Swiss foreign relations. The editors provide researchers and practitioners with official sources in printed and...

Plazi TreatmentBank

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Environment

The Plazi TreatmentBank deals with scientific, published, biosystematic literature. It is the literature documenting and describing all the world’s ca 1.9 Million known species in...

Historic Prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Around 1200 historic prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn collection at Wikimedia Commons. A diversity of facets of Solothurn history can be found in them, from...

Ernst Klöti Slides collection - ZB Solothurn

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Economy and finance

Ernst Klöti, working as a teacher in the municipalities of Aeschi and Luterbach in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, took photographs of the canton and other regions on slide...

RTS TV and Radio Broadcasts

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Metadata about all RTS TV and Radio Broadcasts from 1935 until now. This includes more than 350'000 shows and covers all RTS audio and video channels : RTS 1, RTS 2, La Première,...

e-manuscripta.ch, the digital platform for manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The presentation platform e-manuscripta.ch provides Swiss libraries and archives with a presentation tool for digitised manuscripts of all kinds. The spectrum ranges from text...

Photographs of Items from the Musée Bolo's Collection

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Musée Bolo is an exhibition at the School of Computer And Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne. Currently it houses around...

VSJF-Refugees Migration

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

The VSJF-Refugees Migration data are an excerpt of the VSJF-database hosted at the Archives of Contemporary History, ETH Zurich. The database contains data sets of refugees which...

Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Shoe Museum Lausanne's collection tells the story of footwear across Europe through the ages. Its collection consists of more than 400 examples (mainly reconstructions based on...

Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Transport

This collection includes photographs of bridges in the Swiss Federal Railways' former Kreis II. They were taken around the period from 1882 to 1966. The Kreis II had its...

Zurich Overnight Visitor Logs ("Nachtzedel")

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Population and society, Regions and cities

Data and metadata

The digital copies of the "Zürcher Nachtzedel (1780 to 1818)" were produced between 2023 and 2024 in the digitization center of the Zentralbibliothek...

Promptuarium Genealogicum by Carl Keller-Escher

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Population and society

This dataset contains image links, full texts and metadata of the 7 volumes of the "Promptuarium genealogicum" by Carl Keller-Escher (1851-1916). This genealogical work of around...

Metadata of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Different sets of meta-data are available concerning the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HDS), such as article lists for different categories and languages, authority files...

Images from the "Exposition Nationale" in Geneva in 1896

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Geneva hosted the Swiss National Exhibition in 1896. Here is a selection of 51 images from the Bibliothèque de Genève.

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Biographical data on artists from SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland

Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA)
Education, culture and sport

SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland is an online dictionary on historical and contemporary art, published by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA). Richly illustrated,...

Bibliographic data of IUCN's publications and grey literature

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

IUCN is the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with its headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. The dataset contains bibliographic data of IUCN's publications and grey...

Selection of photographs collected by the archaeologist Albert Naef

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Economy and finance

In partnership with Wikimedia CH, the Archives cantonales vaudoises have uploaded a selection of photographies collected by the archaeologist Albert Naef to Wikimedia Commons on...

Swiss Photography Metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The database serves as a finding aid for photography collections and estates in Switzerland. Please note that the biographical texts and the texts covering institutions and...