VSJF-Refugees Migration

Crime, criminal justice, Education and science, Geography, Mobility and Transport, Public order and security, Population, Social security, Territory and environment

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...

Annotated references from journal issues and monographs on the history of Venice

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

A dataset of annotated references (in both reference lists and footnotes) from journal issues and monographs on the history of Venice, created in the context of the LinkedBooks ...

Bibliographic data of IUCN's publications and grey literature

Agriculture, forestry, Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science, Geography, Territory and 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 ...

Photos of shoes in the collection of the Shoe Museum Lausanne

Culture, media, information society, 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...

Geneva Conventions

Legislation, Public order and security, Politics

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...

Federal consultations 1960-1991

Legislation

Metadata on consultation procedures completed between 1960 and 1991. The list links to the overview of consultation procedures completed since 1992, which is maintained online b...

Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War”

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science, Public order and security

The “Active service in the First World War” (1914-1918) photograph collection comprises 5,125 digitised glass plate negatives and their metadata from the fonds “National Defence...

State financial statements / federal budget: receipts and expenditure of the ...

Administration, Statistical basis, Finances

In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure. The Federal...

Photographs of historical railway bridges (ca. 1882-1966)

Culture, media, information society, sport, Mobility and 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...

Sammlung Europa, Museum der Kulturen Basel

Culture, media, information society, sport

Das Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB) ist das grösste ethnologische Museum der Schweiz und eines der bedeutendsten seiner Art in Europa. Seine Sammlung geniesst Weltruf und zählt ...

eBooks on demand (EOD)

Education and science

eBooks on Demand is a document delivery service at a charge, enabling the order of complete electronic copies of copyright-free books published between 17th century and 1914.

Bibliographic Records from the Alexandria Library Network

Education and science

Currently, the Alexandria library network comprises 16 libraries and documentation agencies within and outside the Confederation. The library catalog of this network contains mo...

Items from the Collections of the Historical Museum Basel

Culture, media, information society, 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...

ISplus directory of archives, libraries and museums, including 'Repertorium d...

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

The addresses from the 'Information Schweiz’ (Information Switzerland) directory, from the 'Repertorium der handschriftlichen Nachlässe in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Schw...

Bibliography on Swiss History (1975 - )

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

The Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) comprises publications from both Switzerland and abroad that relate to the nation’s history. They include monographs, articles from colle...

Swiss Book (2001 - )

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

The Swiss Book is the national bibliography of Switzerland published by the Swiss National Library (NL). This bibliography lists Swiss publications in all media: books, maps, mu...

Bildersammlung Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 1908 in Zürich geboren, 1942 in Sils gestorben, gehört zu den herausragenden Schweizer Reporterinnen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre. Sie bezeichnete sich s...

Max van Berchem image collection

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

Born in Geneva in 1863, Max van Berchem was an Orientalist, specialist in Islamic archaeology and photographer. He travelled to Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey to carry out r...

Eduard Spelterini image collection

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

Between 1890 and 1910 Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931) undertook a number of travels by balloon over Switzerland and other countries. While doing this, he took photographs from ab...

Handschriften Rainer Maria Rilke

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 in Prag geboren, 1926 in der Schweiz gestorben, zählt zu den bedeutendsten Dichtern der literarischen Moderne. Sein Werk umfasst vor allem Lyrik, aber a...

Digitised publications

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

The digitized collections available through this portal include over 8,500 books in PDF format with integrated optical character recognition. These texts are available worldwide...

The Gugelmann Collection (Schweizer Kleinmeister)

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science

Since 1982, the Swiss National Library (NL) has been home to the Gugelmann Collection, a large group of works by the Schweizer Kleinmeister - Swiss 18th century masters - assemb...

Biographical data on artists from SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland

Culture, media, information society, 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...

Citations extracted from monographs about the history of Venice

Culture, media, information society, sport, Education and science, Geography

A dataset of citations extracted from monographs about the history of Venice.