Education, culture and sport

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...

List of all Exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Kunsthaus Zürich has been mounting temporary exhibitions for more than a century. Every year, the Kunsthaus Zürich holds an average of three exhibitions in the Great Exhibition...

Swiss Theatre Metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Swiss theatre metadata gathered by the Swiss Theatre Collection contains information about ca. 55’000 professional theatre productions in Switzerland, mainly from the mid-20th...

International Telecommunication Union History Portal Metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector, Economy and finance

For a century and a half since 1865, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been at the centre of advances in communications – from telegraphy through to the modern...

Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Zentralbibliothek Solothurn holds an important collection of manuscripts predominantly from the later Middle Ages. The more than 100 codices are not only from Solothurn...

Journal de Genève / Gazette de Lausanne (1914)

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Historical database of Le Temps comprises 3 newspapers over 200 years. The Journal de Genève ran from 1826 to 1998, the Gazette de Lausanne (under different names) from 1798 to...

Manuscripts in the holding of the Municipal Library Schaffhausen

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This collection includes high-quality reproductions of the medieval manuscripts in the Municipal Library Schaffhausen.

Basic Metadata of the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The goal of e-codices is to provide access to medieval and modern manuscripts of Switzerland via a virtual library.

On the e-codices website, complete digital reproductions of...

Inventory of Research Libraries in Switzerland

Swissbib
Education, culture and sport

The inventory contains all institutions which are included in the Swissbib library meta-catalogue. It comprises ca. 900 institutions with name, address, geocoordinates, codes,...

Linked Swissbib (contents from Swiss libraries as Linked Open Data)

Swissbib
Education, culture and sport

Swissbib gathers metadata from more than 900 libraries in Switzerland and therefore contains the description of more than 25 million documents. The metadata describing these...

Public Domain Music Recordings and Metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Swiss Foundation Public Domain is a charitable foundation specialized in the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film material. Its archives include over...

Historical Photographs of Wetzikon

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Municipal Archives Wetzikon have made a set of historical photographs from the album of Fritz Wiesendanger (photographer in Wetzikon, †1917) available.

Swiss Institutions and Online Ressources for the Historical Sciences

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Die Datenbank des Fachportals für die Geschichtswissenschaften der Schweiz (infoclio.ch) enthält 1677 Datensätze zu schweizerischen Institutionen und 1326 Datensätze zu Online...

Rousseau Online: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des oeuvres

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

rousseauonline.ch gives access to the complete works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in their first reference edition, in 17 volumes and almost 10'000 pages, published in...

Historical photographs from the album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ (approx. 1892)

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

The 60 photographs contained in the lavishly designed album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ takes viewers leafing through it on a picturesque journey from the heart of...

Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway line (1911-1935)

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Transport

The photographs contained in this collection stem from an album named "protective structures along the Gotthard railway line" («Schutzbauten an der Gotthardlinie»). The Gotthard...

Photos of the Construction of the Hauenstein Base Tunnel

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Transport, Economy and finance

The photographs in this collection were taken between 1912 and 1916 during the construction of the Hauenstein railway tunnel. They're part of the extensive photo archive of the...

Photographs of Contemporary Musicians of the Canton of Vaud

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne collects archives, music scores and publications about the musicians related to the State of Vaud. These pictures portray local and...

Ehrenreich Collection Database

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Leroy Allan Ehrenreich (1929-2016) was an opera enthousiast from New York who left behind a sizable collection of (live) recordings of opera performances and recitals. Since 2018,...