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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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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) :...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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.