Archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives

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The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) are the Confederation's service and competence centre for lasting information management. They appraise, secure, describe and provide access to...

Archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives

Metadata of the fonds in the Swiss Federal Archives. Currently the metadata of 3.84 million files and 257'000 documents are available online (august 2020). Including over 25’000 thumbnails.

The database continuously incorporates new data.

Data and Resources

02-OLR.zipZIP
The MySQL dump of the database in a compressed archive (ZIP).
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03-ReadMe.pdfPDF
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01-ReadMe.xlsxXLS
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Identifier	bar-01@schweizerisches-bundesarchiv-bar
Title for URL of the dataset	swiss-archives-archive-database-of-the-swiss-federal-archives
Schedule the publication of the dataset	-
Issued date	September 1, 2013
Modification date	August 14, 2020
Conforms to	-
Update interval	Irregular
Temporal coverage	January 1, 1798 - December 31, 2019
Publisher Information	Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv
Contact points	Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv
Languages	English German French Italian
URL	https://www.recherche.bar.admin.ch
Relation	Legal basis
Spatial	-
Related datasets	Fonds overview: Federal State since 1848 Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War” Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons
Documentation	-
Keywords	active-service agricultural-resear... agriculture archives armament armed-forces armed-forces-material armed-forces-staff art authorities banks border-guard censorship civil-aviation civil-defence civil-status coinage commerce commercial-register... communications consulates council-of-states credit-institutions culture customs customs-administration customs-districts development-coopera... economy-economic-af... education embassies emigration employee-protection energy environment environmental-prote... extra-parliamentary... federal-administration federal-assembly federal-buildings federal-chancellery federal-council federal-parliament finance-administration finances fishing foreign-economic-af... foreign-policy forestry foundations gain-administration general general-defence general-staff glam government head-of-department health housing hunting hydraulic-engineering immigration industry intellectual-property international-coope... international-organ... investigation investment-funds justice labour-law land-improvement land-register legislation media meteorology migration-authority military-insurance military-justice military-leadership national-budget national-council national-defence national-supply navigation office-of-the-armed... office-of-the-attor... openglam parliamentary-commi... parliamentary-services people personnel-employed-... police postal-services precious-metals private-insurance protection-of-forei... railways refugees research road-construction road-transport saving-bank school science science-policy service-branches social-insurance social-security spatial-planning sports state statistics swiss-representatio... tax-administration taxes telecommunications tenant-protection topography tourism trade transport unemployment-insurance veterinary-services war-economy water-management welfare work
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