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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...

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...

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...

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...

19th-century decisions of the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich

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Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Energy, Justice, legal system and public safety, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Government and public sector, Transport, Economy and finance

Transcriptions of the separate resolutions of the 19th-century Government Council of the Canton of Zurich. Encoded as TEI-conforming XML files. This data was created by the TKR...

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...

Combined Archival Meta-Data from 5 swiss archives in Linked Data

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

To unlock the power of existing finding aids in archives, an informal group of interest around Linked Data (LD) has formed in Switzerland mid 2014. Archival practitioners of five...

Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport, Transport

Photos - many of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took both in Switzerland and during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923), Persia (1924/25), across...

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...

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...

Herbarium of the University of Neuchâtel

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Education, culture and sport, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food

The University of Neuchâtel is the owner or custodian of a huge collection of herbarium specimens dating back to the 18th century and containing 475,000 plates of undeniable...

Media on Wikimedia Commons contributed by the ETH Library

ETH Library
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities

ETH-Bibliothek's photographic and audio-visual documents are curated by the Image Archive. Its collection of more than 3 million visual sources include ETH Zurich's Portrait and...

Artist Names 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 SIK-ISEA's online dictionary on historical and contemporary art in Switzerland. Richly illustrated, it is edited and updated on a daily...

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...

Latin abbreviations contained in Adriano Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This collection contains the data of the most commonly used reference work on latin abbreviations, Cappelli’s Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (Cappelli, Adriano: Lexicon Abbreviaturarum....

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...

Basic descriptive bibliographic and usage data of Lucernense collections 17.-21. century

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern is the cantonal and academic library of the canton of Lucerne and holds in its collections, among others, publications from and about...

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...

Images from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich's Special Collections

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Zurich Central Library has made some 100 high resolution scans of single-leaf broadsheets, landscapes, portraits as well as cultural/historical material from its rich special...

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.