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Bibliography on Swiss History (1975 - )

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

The Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) comprises publications from both Switzerland and abroad that relate to the nation’s history. They include monographs, articles from...

Swiss Book (2001 - )

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

The Swiss Book is the National Bibliography of Switzerland and is compiled, edited and published by the Swiss National Library (NL). The Swiss Book indexes Swiss publishing output...

The Gugelmann Collection (Schweizer Kleinmeister)

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

Since 1982, the Swiss National Library (NL) has been home to the Gugelmann Collection, a large group of works by the Schweizer Kleinmeister - Swiss 18th century masters - assembled...

Digitised publications

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

The digitized collections available through this portal include over 8,500 books in PDF format with integrated optical character recognition. These texts are available worldwide...

Max van Berchem image collection

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

Born in Geneva in 1863, Max van Berchem was an Orientalist, specialist in Islamic archaeology and photographer. He travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey to carry out...

Eduard Spelterini image collection

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

Between 1890 and 1910 Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931) undertook a number of travels by balloon over Switzerland and other countries. While doing this, he took photographs from...

Bildersammlung Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Swiss National Library NL
Education, culture and sport

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1908 in Zürich geboren, 1942 in Sils gestorben, gehört zu den herausragenden Schweizer Reporterinnen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre. Sie bezeichnete sich...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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,...

Medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

This collection includes high-quality reproductions of more than 70 of the medieval manuscripts in the Basel University Library.

Most of the manuscripts were written in the late...

Images in the archive of the city of Baden

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The city archive of Baden has released approx. 5000 images (as of December 2016) of digitized material in the collections of the historical museum of Baden and the city...