Metadata of swisscollections, the gateway to historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives

swisscollections is the gateway to historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives. In swisscollections, you can find archive material (including unpublished papers), images, old prints and rare books, document collections, film material, manuscripts, maps, music recordings, sheet music, text recordings as well as listings in bibliographies of cantons. It is a metacatalogue that draws on various data pools.

Data and Resources

  • Metadata of the archives in EAD formatSERVICE

    A subset of swisscollections metadata is available in EAD format.

    • Additional Info

    Field Value
    Identifier swisscollections@openglam
    Title for URL of the dataset Metadata of swisscollections, the gateway to historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives
    Schedule the publication of the dataset -
    Issued date November 1, 2022
    Modification date -
    Conforms to -
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    Publisher Information swisscollections association
    Contact points Coordination swisscollections
    Languages Language independent
    URL https://swisscollections.ch
    Relation -
    Spatial -
    Related datasets -
    Documentation -
    Keywords
    Terms of use https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_by
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