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Swiss Heritage Data
This page contains a list of open heritage data from and/or about Switzerland. New arrivals since the last Open Cultural Data have been highlighted with a ⭐️. Feel free to add any further datasets that are in line with the OpenGLAM Principles.
Save for a small number of exceptions listed below, GLAM datasets for the hackathon are being published and promoted on opendata.swiss, the national open data registry. GLAM datasets on opendata.swiss can be found via their tags glam and openglam (for English, French, German and Italian).
Data providers are invited to manage the description of their data themselves under their own organizational account on opendata.swiss. As an exception, the OpenGLAM CH Working Group may take care of the listing of the data on behalf of data providers which do not have their own user account on opendata.swiss (yet).
Note that we are in an ongoing dialogue with the Swiss Federal Archives, who are running opendata.swiss, in view of the improvement of the platform with regard to the presentation of heritage data. If you have any suggestions or comments in this regard, please let us know: info(at)openglam.ch
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- Archives cantonales jurassiennes (State Archives of the Canton of Jura)
- Archives cantonales vaudoises (State Archives of the Canton of Vaud)
- Archives d'Etat de Genève (State Archives of the Canton of Geneva)
- Archives of Contemporary History / Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, ETH Zürich
- Archiv Ortsgeschichte Wetzikon (Municipal Archives Wetzikon)
- Baden Municipal Archives
- Bern University of the Arts
- Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Lausanne BCUL
- Büro für Fotografiegeschichte Bern
- Canton of Zurich – Monuments Protection Service
- Canton of Zurich – State Archives
- Canton of Zurich – Statistical Office
- Christkatholische Kirche der Schweiz
- City of Zurich – Municipal Archives
- City of Zurich – GeoZ
- City of Zurich – Grün Stadt Zürich
- City of Zurich – Police
- City of Zurich – Urban Planning Office
- City of Zurich – Architectural Heritage Office
- City of Zurich – Monuments Protection Service
- City of Zurich – Office for Art in the Public Space
- dodis.ch
- e-codices
- EPFL – DHLAB
- EPFL – Musée Bolo
- ETH Bibliothek
- Federal Office for Civil Protection, PCP Section
- Federal Roads Office
- Federal Statistical Office FSO
- Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz / Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse)
- Historical Museum Basel
- Infoclio
- International Telecommunication Union ITU
- IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Le Temps Historical Archive
- Library Am Guisanplatz BiG
- Museen Basel
- Museris/:ratio
- OpenGLAM CH
- Plazi
- Radio Télévision Suisse
- Heritage Foundation SBB
- Schaffhausen Municipal Library
- Shoe Museum Lausanne
- SIK-ISEA
- Metadata of Swiss Exhibitions at the Biennale di Venezia (data available at the hackathon)
- Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse SHAS
- Swissbib
- SwissJazzOrama
- Swiss Federal Archives
- Swiss Foundation Public Domain
- Swiss Game Developers Association (with help from School of Data Switzerland)
- Swiss National Library
- Swiss National Museum
- Swiss Social Archives
- Swiss Theatre Collection
- University Library of Basel
- University of Lausanne, Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique
- University of Neuchâtel
- University of Zurich
- Uster – Municipal Archives
- Winterthur – Municipal Archives
- Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
- Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Exceptions not hosted on opendata.swiss
Inventories of Historical Collections
Archives d'Etat de Genève (State Archives of the Canton of Geneva)
Donation de la comtesse Eldegarde au prieuré de Satigny 21 février 912, cote CH AEG P.H. 1, Public Domain
Inventories of three historical collections:
- Collection des pièces historiques - This collection contains documents dating from 912 through 1846. It was assembled in the 19th century with the goal of gathering all documents considered interesting from the point of view of political history. The collection comprises 5700 folders with ca. 40'000 documents. Scans of the documents are accessible on the Adhémar database. More (in French)...
- Archives du département du Léman - This archival collection comprises the documents from the Administration du Léman (Département du Léman) and the Sous-préfecture de Genève during the French administration of Geneva between 1798 and 1813 (see also: "Léman (département)" in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland)
- Finances P - This collection consists of accounting documents from the 14th century onwards, organized according to year and topic.
License: CC-0 (Inventories); Public Domain (Scans of historical documents)
Formats: CSV / Excel (Inventories); JPG (Scans of historical documents)
Data / Documentation: datahub.io (Inventories and documentation in French); Adhemar (Scans of historical documents - search for “pièces historiques” in the section “Recherche de documents numérisés”)
Contact: archives@etat.ge.ch
Personnalités Vaudoises
Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Lausanne BCUL
Anne Cuneo at the Salon du Livre 2011 in Geneva. Photo: Rama, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
A rich database about people notable for special artistical and cultural merits for the Canton of Vaud “personnalités vaudoises” including detailed biographical information and many links of various nature. This data stems from the database originally designed in 2006 to celebrate the Rumine Palace centennial. The database can be browsed online via: https://db-prod-bcul.unil.ch/persovd/centdomaine.php?Domaine=Arch%C3%A9ologie%20et%20histoire
License: Public Domain
Formats: MySQL dump, CSV
Data / Documentation: 20170907_persovd.xlsx
Contact: http://www.bcu-lausanne.ch/contact/
Inventory of Historical Monuments (City of Zurich)
City of Zurich - Monuments Protection Service
Preview of the geodataset «historical monuments» with the Müllerplan from 1793 as basemap
Inventory of historical monuments in the city of Zurich (Denkmalschutzobjekte).
License: CC-0
Formats: Shapefile (CH03) / WMS / WFS (XML)/ GeoJSON (WGS84) / KMZ (WGS84)
Data / Documentation: OGD Portal of the City of Zurich
Contact: opendata@zuerich.ch
Inventory of Historical Monuments (Canton of Zurich)
Canton of Zurich - Monuments Protection Service
Photo: Roland zh, CC by-sa 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventory list of historical monuments in the Canton of Zurich (Denkmalschutzobjekte).
License: Opendata.swiss Open use
Documentation: Geographical Information System of the Canton of Zurich / Opendata.swiss
Contact: oliver.waddell@bd.zh.ch
PCP Inventory
Federal Office for Civil Protection, PCP Section
Wiesener Viadukt, winning picture of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 international photo contest. Photo: David Gubler, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventory of Cultural Property in Switzerland (historical buildings and heritage collections). The list of A-objects contains cultural properties of national significance, while the list of B-objects contains the cultural properties of regional significance. Earlier versions of this lists have been transposed to Wikipedia and have been used as a basis for the Swiss edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments international photo competition. Openly licensed pictures of the various objects can be found on Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC-0
Format: CSV / Excel
Data: datahub.io
Documentation: German / French / Italian
Contact: kgs-gis@babs.admin.ch
Inventory of Historical Traffic Routes in Switzerland
Federal Roads Office
Historical Road on Septimer Pass. Photo: Mgloor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Inventory of Historical Traffic Routes in Switzerland is a unique enterprise worldwide: on behalf of the Swiss Confederation ViaStoria has created a cartographical and descriptive survey of all roads and paths, based on their historical traffic importance or on the preserved historical structures of national importance (ca. 3'750 km). These traffic routes are protected under the Swiss Federal Law for the Protection of Nature and Landscape (NHG). More...
Format: Shapefile (among others)
Data / Documentation: https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset?keywords_de=historischer-verkehrsweg
Contact: hans-peter.kistler@astra.admin.ch
Statistics on films and new releases screened in Switzerland 1995-2015 (STAT-TAB)
Federal Statistical Office FSO
The interior of the Piccadilly Cinema, above Piccadilly Arcade in Perth, Western Australia. Photo: Rob Chandler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This statistics dataset shows the number of all films and new releases screened in Switzerland by country of origin and admissions. The numbers come from the Swiss Film and Cinema Statistics SSCin (in German) and are collected by ProCinema, reference period is the Cinema year (52 or 53 film weeks), catchment area is Switzerland. The survey excludes film festivals, open-air cinema, cinema clubs and adult cinemas.
The data is part of STAT-TAB. It's presented in data cubes with variables that can be interactively combined. The result of the request is shown in a table whose appearance can quickly and easily be changed by selecting different options. The tables can be personalized (choice of the variables, representation). The data can be exported through diverse standard formats and re-used locally.
License: opendata.swiss open use
Format: HTML table, XLSX, Tab-separated values (TSV), Semicolon delimited values
Data / Documentation: Data: www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch / Usage: opendata.swiss / Documentation: www.bfs.admin.ch
Contact: poku@bfs.admin.ch
Lausanne Museums
- Musée historique de Lausanne (Lausanne Historical museum)
- Musée Romain Lausanne-Vidy (Lausanne Roman museum)
- Collection de l'Art Brut (Art Brut Collection)
- Mudac (Musée de design et d’art appliqués contemporains)
- Fonds des arts plastiques de la Ville de Lausanne
Lausanne. Le Grand-Pont est inauguré en 1844
There are 185'000 objects, many with digitized images, available through this website which brings together the collections of five museums and art institutions from Lausanne, Switzerland. All items dating from before 1900 are in the Public Domain and the metadata usable under Creative Commons licenses. Additionally this includes the Jacques-Edouard Berger collection from the mudac museum. However, note that most items in the collection de l’art brut, mudac and FAP are copyrighted, but the works of authors deceased for more than 70 years can be used.
License:
- Images dating from before 1900: Public Domain / no known copyright
- Works of authors/photographers deceased more than 70 years ago: Public Domain (this will often require some research as the dates of death of the creators are not systematically indicated in the metadata)
- Other images: All rights reserved.
- Metadata: CC BY-SA
Formats: JPEG
Data: musees.lausanne.ch (click Collections for search options)
Bulk data: will be available at the hackathon courtesy of a team working on a scraper
Contact: Yann Ringgenberg
Historical Playing Cards
OpenGLAM CH
Historical Tarot Cards, Public Domain
Many playing cards were produced in Switzerland throughout history. Particularly famous was the Müller company in Schaffhausen which is the ancestor of today's AGMüller. But even before there was playing cards manufacturing in Switzerland. We have digitized the playing cards of a tarot game wich was designed in the manufactory of Johann Georg Rauch between 1831 and 1838. Also we have digized a deck of the ancestor deck “Tarot de Besançon”.
License: Public Domain (images)
Format: TIFF
Data: Will be available during the hackathon (to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons)
Contact: micha.rieser@wikimedia.ch
Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk
Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen
Detail of page 19 of the “Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk” (Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, Gen. 8, Gen. 8, f. 5r), Public Domain
The “Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk”, held by the Municipal Library of Schaffhausen, is a large-format manuscript from the 14th century, which contains the oldest version of an illustrated copy of the so-called Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, a German prose translation of the Gospels, together with the Lives of the Apostles and various Apocrypha from the New Testament. Over 400 pen and ink wash drawings, irregularly interspersed throughout the manuscript, accompany and illustrate the text.
License: Public Domain (If you make use of this work in a publication, an app, or the like, it is suggested that you cite it according to the citation format proposed by e-codices and send a short notice to the Municipal Library of Schaffhausen.)
Format: JPEG / TIFF
Data: JPEG-files in various formats are available via e-codices / High resolution TIFF-files will be available during the hackathon.
Documentation: e-codices
Contact:
- bibliothek@stsh.ch
- ramona.fritschi@unifr.ch, e-codices (for the TIFF-files)
Metadata of the Catalogue for Manuscripts and Archives HAN
Universitätsbibliothek Basel
Objects from HAN
The HAN network (Verbund Handschriften - Archive - Nachlässe) describes and catalogues hundreds of archives and collections from natural and juridical persons as well as thousands of medieval and early modern manuscripts, letters, notated music, photographs and objects, and makes them accessible to the general public. It includes objects from the Basel University Library, the Swiss Economic Archive, the Rorschach Archives and Collection, the Archive on the history of women in Switzerland, the Cantonal Libraries of St. Gall and Appenzell-Ausserrhoden, the Central Library of Solothurn, the Central- and University Library of Lucerne and last but not least the Abbey Library of St. Gall. The metadata are available as a EAD-XML-File, converted out of the original MARC21 bibliographic format and enriched with lots of persistent identifiers for persons, corporate bodies, conferences and geographical entities from the Integrated Authority File (GND).
License: cc-by-nc (metadata)
Formats: EAD-XML
Data: https://datahub.io/dataset/ub-unibas-han
Contact: beat.mattmann@unibas.ch