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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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Items from the Collections of the Historical Museum Basel
Education, culture and sport
Since 2014, the Basel Historical Museum is making high-quality, high-resolution images of items from its collections available on Wikimedia Commons. In fall 2014, a first set of...
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Geneva Conventions
Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector
The first Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field”, was signed 150 years ago, on 22 August 1864. The original document fro...
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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...
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Manuscripts in the holding of the Municipal Library Schaffhausen
Education, culture and sport
This collection includes high-quality reproductions of the medieval manuscripts in the Municipal Library Schaffhausen.
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Basic Metadata of the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
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 o...
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Inventory of Research Libraries in Switzerland
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, U...
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Linked Swissbib (contents from Swiss libraries as Linked Open Data)
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 doc...
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Public Domain Music Recordings and Metadata
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...
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Historical Photographs of Wetzikon
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.
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Swiss Institutions and Online Ressources for the Historical Sciences
Education, culture and sport
Die Datenbank des Fachportals für die Geschichtswissenschaften der Schweiz (infoclio.ch) enthält 1677 Datensätze zu schweizerischen Institutionen und 1326 Datensätze zu Online R...
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Rousseau Online: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des oeuvres
Education, culture and sport
rousseauonline.ch gives access to the complete works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in their first reference edition, in 17 volumes and almost 10'000 pages, published in G...
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Historical photographs from the album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“...
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
The 60 photographs contained in the lavishly designed album „A tire d’aile par le saint Gothard“ takes viewers leafing through it on a picturesque journey from the heart of Swit...
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Historical photographs of protective structures along the Gotthard railway...
Education, culture and sport, Transport
The photographs contained in this collection stem from an album named "protective structures along the Gotthard railway line" («Schutzbauten an der Gotthardlinie»). The Gotthard...
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Photos of the Construction of the Hauenstein Base Tunnel
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Transport, Economy and finance
The photographs in this collection were taken between 1912 and 1916 during the construction of the Hauenstein railway tunnel. They're part of the extensive photo archive of the ...