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Photos by Documenta Natura (1987–2010)
Education, culture and sport, Environment, Transport
The pictures of the Documenta Natura Foundation, which existed from 1987-2010, made it their business to photographically document changes in the Swiss landscape. The photograph...
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Maps from the collection “Magnificent Atlases” with title cartouches
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](https://www.e-rara.ch/atlanten/nav/classification/26780995)” wer...
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Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
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 di...
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Plazi TreatmentBank
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 ...
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Historic Prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
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 documenta...
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Ernst Klöti Slides collection - ZB Solothurn
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 slid...
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RTS TV and Radio Broadcasts
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...
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e-manuscripta.ch, the digital platform for manuscript material from Swiss...
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 m...
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Photographs of Items from the Musée Bolo's Collection
Education, culture and sport
The Musée Bolo is an exhibition at the School of Computer And Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne. Currently it houses arou...
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VSJF-Refugees Migration
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
The VSJF-Refugees Migration data are an excerpt of the VSJF-database hosted at the Archives of Contemporary History, ETH Zurich. The database contains data sets of refugees whic...
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Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne
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...
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Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)
Education, culture and sport, Transport
This collection includes photographs of bridges in the Swiss Federal Railways' former Kreis II. They were taken around the period from 1882 to 1966. The Kreis II had its adminis...
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Zurich Overnight Visitor Logs ("Nachtzedel")
Population and society, Regions and cities
## Data and metadata The digital copies of the "Zürcher Nachtzedel (1780 to 1818)" were produced between 2023 and 2024 in the digitization center of the Zentralbibliothek Zü...
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Promptuarium Genealogicum by Carl Keller-Escher
Population and society
This dataset contains image links, full texts and metadata of the 7 volumes of the "Promptuarium genealogicum" by Carl Keller-Escher (1851-1916). This genealogical work of aroun...
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Metadata of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
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 file...
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Images from the "Exposition Nationale" in Geneva in 1896
Education, culture and sport
Geneva hosted the Swiss National Exhibition in 1896. Here is a selection of 51 images from the Bibliothèque de Genève. [Blog Article](https://blog.bge-geneve.ch/le-village-no...
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Biographical data on artists from SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland
Education, culture and sport
SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland is an online dictionary on historical and contemporary art, published by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA). Richly illustrated...
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Bibliographic data of IUCN's publications and grey literature
Education, culture and sport, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment
IUCN is the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with its headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. The dataset contains bibliographic data of IUCN's publications and grey ...
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Selection of photographs collected by the archaeologist Albert Naef
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...
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Swiss Photography Metadata
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 hold...
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List of all Exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich
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 Exhibit...
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Swiss Theatre Metadata
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-20...
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International Telecommunication Union History Portal Metadata
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...
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Medieval manuscripts in the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
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 mona...
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Journal de Genève / Gazette de Lausanne (1914)
Education, culture and sport
The Historical database of Le Temps comprises 3 newspapers over 200 years. The Journal de Genève ran from 1826 to 1998, the Gazette de Lausanne (under different names) from 1798...