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Metadata of PARC - Portal for African Research Collections

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

PARC is the meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel. It contains more than 250'000 objects, books, photographs,...

Photographs by Robert Breitinger

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Education, culture and sport

Robert Breitinger-Wyder was a heating engineer and stove manufacturer in Zürich. At age 45, he took up the hobby of photography, like so many of the bourgeoisie in Zürich at that...

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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Documents officiels numérisés de la Ville de Genève

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

La Ville de Genève a numérisé de nombreux documents qui sont disponibles sur le site web des archives de la Ville. Par exemple :

• Mémorial des séances du Conseil municipal....

Digitized Images from Old Books about Africa

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

2500+ images extracted from Old Books (1598-1907) about Africa with the corresponding metadata.

You can browse the images in PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) :...

Early modern travel literature

Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Education, culture and sport

Printed travelogues from the 16th to the 19th century shaped the ideas of foreign countries and continents. They informed, alienated and dramatised and thus satisfied the curiosity...

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...

Index général de la correspondance du Musée d'Ethnographie (1900-1952)

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

Index d'environ 30'000 lettres écrites et reçues par le Musée d'Ethnographie entre 1900 et 1952. On y retrouve les noms de tous les correspondants, ainsi que leur localisation...

API platform (Developer Portal) for direct access to ETH Library's resources

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

ETH Library operates an API platform that facilitates access to our extensive data resources for developers. The Developer Portal provides developers with more efficient and...

PIA Metadata API

Participatory Image Archives
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

The material that can be consumed through the APIs is part of two collections from the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde. The first collection spans more than 100 years...

Accommodation in Eastern Switzerland

Ostschweiz Tourismus
Economy and finance

Accommodation in Eastern Switzerland divided into hotels, hostels, B&Bs, camping, apartment and vacation rentals.

Experiences in Eastern Switzerland

Ostschweiz Tourismus
Economy and finance

Experiences in Eastern Switzerland

Gastronomy in Eastern Switzerland

Ostschweiz Tourismus
Economy and finance

Gastronomy businesses in eastern Switzerland

Digitized rare books in the Basel University Library

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

Over 6.000 prints (books, maps or music prints) from the Basel University Library from the 15th to the 19th century, including a lot of early prints from the 16th century.

Photos from the Max Frisch Archive

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

The image database for the Max Frisch Archive comprises roughly 4,000 images that document the life of Max Frisch in photographic form and give a comprehensive insight into the...

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...

Thomas Mann secondary literature (sample query)

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

Use ETH Library's RESTful API "Resource Information Bus (RIB)" to access the library's resources, e.g. primary literature about Thomas Mann, dynamically.

Archives holdings metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from the following Swiss archives via its website and API as well as information on archival...

Max Frisch primary literature (sample query)

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

Use ETH Library's RESTful API "Resource Information Bus (RIB)" to access the library's resources, e.g. primary literature by Max Frisch, dynamically.

Photos from the Max Frisch Archive

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The image database for the Max Frisch Archive comprises roughly 4,000 images that document the life of Max Frisch in photographic form and give a comprehensive insight into the...