Projects
As an information service-provider, ETH Library focuses on selected strategic fields. In doing so, it gears itself to the needs of the Swiss and international information and science community and society's increasing digitization.
Current projects
- Change NEBIS – Change project as regards SLSP, focussing on the NEBIS network and the Corporate Services section
- Digitization of sunspot drawings – Archival description and digitisation of the sunspot records from the Locarno-Monti observatory
- DinKa – Digitisation of key documents in institutional holdings secured in the Archives of Contemporary History.
- EIDOS – Evaluation and implementation of a digital infrastructure for the collections of scientific objects
- E-Periodica – Next Level Access – Implementation of expanded and improved research options on the E-Periodica journals platform
- ETH goes SLSP – ETH Library’s change and IT project as regards SLSP
- Foundation of a collection of scientific instruments and teaching aids (Schlrm) – Collection foundation, scientific instruments, teaching aids
- IDEfiX – Cataloguing, digitization and scientific indexing of the xylotheque
- Indexing the theatre documentation on Max Frisch – Programmes, posters and other theatre-related documents are indexed and digitized
- FuTur – Full digitisation of the rust fungi subcollection
- IMAGO – Indexing and digitization of Lepidoptera from the Entomological Collection
- New design for the ETH Library website – ETH Library's new customer-oriented website
- Safeguarding AV media in MFA – The audio and visual documents in the Max Frisch Archive holdings are to be transferred to long-term digital archiving
- Thomas Mann International – Digital networking of the collections within the Thomas Mann International network
- Vascular plants herbarium 2019 – 2021 – Inventory and digitisation of herbarium specimens of Valais flora
- Geodata4SwissEDU and geodata4edu.ch – Development, operation and further development of a national geodata portal for education and research
- Georeferencing in the Image Archive – Integration of Swiss landscape and aerial photographs on the collaborative crowdsourcing platform sMapshot
- Mass Indexing and Retrospective Conversion (MaRek) – Retrospective conversion of analogue finding aids, development of process models for archival description of extensive record series, archival description of prioritised holdings
- Microfungi – Digitization of microfungi from ETH Zurich's Mycological Herbarium
- Research Data Life-Cycle Management (DLCM) – Solutions and standards for the management of research data throughout Switzerland
- Vascular plant herbarium – Digitization and indexing of Brassicaceae, type specimens and Hans Hess's Angola Herbarium
- Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) – Provision of a central service platform for academic libraries