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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...

Plazi TreatmentBank

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Environment

The Plazi TreatmentBank deals with scientific, published, biosystematic literature. It is the literature documenting and describing all the world’s ca 1.9 Million known species in...

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.

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...

Historical maps in the collection of the Basel University Library

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities

This collection of maps from the Basel University Library includes more than 500 digitized maps, ranging from the 16th until the end of the 18th century. Some highlights included...

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....