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Swiss GLAM Inventory

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Inventory of heritage institutions in Switzerland (including institutions in Liechtenstein). The inventory has been compiled from various sources.

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....

21st Century Swiss video games

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

A table with information about (initially 21st Century, released) independent video games created by Swiss game developers or studios.

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...

Photographs of Valais by Charles Rieder

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Tenancier du Café de Genève à Sion, Charles Rieder est aussi un étonnant photographe qui nous a laissé 243 négatifs sur plaques de verre, pris entre 1890 et 1920. Les sujets sont...

Metadata of all concerts of the Montreux Jazz Festival

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This dataset describes all the concerts which take place at the Montreux Jazz Festival from 1967 until today. Please keep in mind that the work on this dataset is ongoing and...

Gramophone Collection - Swiss National Sound Archives

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

Gramophone is a project of the Swiss National Sound Archives, which aims to safeguard and enhance a number of historical sound recordings (on cylinders and 78rpm records) preserved...

Metadata of Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG) collections

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This is the metadata of the collections of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève.

You can browse the collections under...

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...

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.

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...