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Swiss Archives - Archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives

Metadata of the fonds in the Swiss Federal Archives. Currently the metadata of 3.28 million files and 208’000 documents are available online (10 June 2016). Including over 5’300 thumbnails.

The database continuously incorporates new data.

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02-OLR.zipZIP
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Identifier
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	June 10, 2016
Conforms to	-
Update interval	-
Temporal coverage	January 1, 1798 - December 31, 2007
Publisher Information	Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv
Contact points	-
Languages	Language independent
URL	https://www.swiss-archives.ch/
Relation	Legal basis
Spatial	-
Related datasets	https://ckan.ogdch-abnahme.clients.liip.ch/perma/bar-03@schweizerisches-bundesarchiv-bar https://ckan.ogdch-abnahme.clients.liip.ch/perma/bar-04@schweizerisches-bundesarchiv-bar
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 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... 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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