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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...

Swiss Photography Metadata

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The database serves as a finding aid for photography collections and estates in Switzerland. Please note that the biographical texts and the texts covering institutions and...

List of all Exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Kunsthaus Zürich has been mounting temporary exhibitions for more than a century. Every year, the Kunsthaus Zürich holds an average of three exhibitions in the Great Exhibition...

e-rara.ch, the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss institutions

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

e-rara.ch is the portal for digitised printed works from Swiss libraries. These works range from books and maps to illustrated materials – from the earliest days of book printing...

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...

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...

Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn

OpenGLAM CH Working Group
Education, culture and sport

The Zentralbibliothek Solothurn holds an important collection of manuscripts predominantly from the later Middle Ages. The more than 100 codices are not only from Solothurn...

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.

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...

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...

Correspondence Thomas Mann

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

The correspondence of Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is part oft he holdings of the ETH Zurich Thomas-Mann-Archives. The collection contains about 24,000 units of descriptions of letters...

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.

Prints and drawings in the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich

ETH Library
Education, culture and sport

The Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich is one of the largest collection of prints and drawings in Switzerland. It contains some 160,000 high-quality artworks on paper from the 15th...

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...