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Awesome Open Government Data Switzerland

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A manually curated list of Open Government Data (OGD) portals, websites, APIs, tools and other related resources in Switzerland. Relevant links to international websites are listed as well.

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Data Portals

Portals and data shops that provide access to Swiss Open Government Data. Listed in this section are «true» data shops rather than websites with download links only.

National data portals

  • opendata.swiss - Central catalog of Swiss Open Government Data, operated by the Federal Statistical Office (BFS). Most important entry point to all things OGD in Switzerland.
  • BFS Data Portal - New data portal of the Federal Statistical Office.
  • BFS STAT-TAB - This interactive database of the Federal Statistical Office provides detailed statistical data and enables simple, individual data queries. The tables produced can be exported in various formats.
  • Schweizer Parlament - Open Data and web services of Swiss Parliament. Inofficial Python wrapper here. R wrapper here.
  • Schweizerische Nationalbank SNB - Swiss National Bank data portal.
  • SBB - Swiss Federal Railways data portal.
  • SBB - Open transport data provided by SBB.
  • Swiss Tourism Data - The portal is part of the National Data Infrastructure for Tourism (NaDIT) project. It serves as the catalogue of metadata of the most important data sources for Swiss tourism.
  • Swisscom - Open data portal of former Swiss national Telco.
  • COVID19 data - COVID-19 data provided by the Federal Office of Public Health BAG. New data portal here.
  • Visualize - Create and embed visualizations from any dataset provided by the LINDAS Linked Data Service.

Cantonal data portals

City-level data portals

Data sources

Selected government websites that provide downloadable data (rather than being a full-featured data shop).

National

Cantonal and city level

Miscellaneous Data Sources

  • Swiss official commune register - Register of all Swiss commune names, numbers and past mutations. (App)
  • TERMDAT - The Federal Administration's terminology database (direct access). The EU's terminology database IATE can be accessed here.
  • CERN - Open data portal of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
  • Open Energy Data CH - List of open datasets related to energy projects in Switzerland. See also this Open Data CH hackday contribution for the Energy Hackday 2020.
  • Swissgrid - Energy data.
  • entscheidsuche.ch - The freely accessible portal offers a search in all published court decisions of Swiss courts of all instances. GitHub scraper repository of the project here.
  • Agristat - Statistical data of Schweizer Bauernverband (not an official government entity).
  • Identitas Tierstatistik - Various datasets about livestock and companion animals in Switzerland.
  • Jagdstatistik - Wild animal and hunting data from Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU).
  • Sucht Schweiz - Statistical data of Sucht Schweiz (not an official government entity).
  • ÖREB-Kataster - Extracts from the Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on Landownership contain legally binding information about the most important public law restrictions that apply to a given plot of land.
  • Memoriav Memobase - Searchable audiovisual collections of Swiss history.
  • DODIS - Swiss diplomatic documents.
  • Schweizer Landesmuseum
  • Swiss Federal Archives - Documents about the history of Switzerland since 1798.
  • Schweizerisches Idiotikon - Comprehensive documentation of the Swissgerman dialect (not an official government entity).
  • Ortsnamen.ch - Comprehensive catalog of Swiss location names (project of Schweizerisches Idiotikon). Searchable map and REST-API available as well.
  • Swiss Dwellings - Notable data set provided by Archilyse Open Data of 45,176 Swiss apartments (370,000 rooms) in ~3,100 buildings including their geometries, room typology as well as their visual, acoustical, topological and daylight characteristics.
  • Meteotest Weather - Weather, climate and environmental data for digital applications (not a government entity, commercial). [API]

Geo Data

National

  • swisstopo - National geo data portal, provided by the Federal Office of Topography (Bundesamt für Landestopographie).
  • geoadmin - National geo data portal (Geoportal des Bundes).
  • geocat - Geographic catalog. Operated by swisstopo. Provides geodata, geoservices, and models of federal offices, cantons, municipalities, research institutes, private companies, and more.
  • geobasisdaten.ch - Geo data portal provided by the «Konferenz der kantonalen Geoinformations- und Katasterstellen». In Switzerland, the basic geodata catalog is a catalog-like listing of all geodata that have been collected by a legal authority by linking them to underlying legal enactments. In addition to a visualization of the geo data recorded by geo information law, its function is the database-specific assignment of responsible bodies and other legally relevant attributes. More information here.
  • geodienste.ch - The intercantonal portal for obtaining geodata and services. Basic geodata are aggregated and made available under the responsibility of the cantons and municipalities.
  • Geoportal.ch - Publication platform for Swiss geo data.
  • BFS Plattform Statatlas - The Federal Statistical Office (BFS) offers a number of specialist atlases in addition to the central statistical atlas of Switzerland, which provide more detailed information on special areas of life from a statistical point of view. With the help of numerous interactive maps and graphics as well as the data behind them, a wide variety of geographical processes and relationships can be easily analyzed and evaluated.

Cantonal and city level

OpenStreetMap

Miscellaneous Geo Data

  • GeoHarvester - Portal that brings together official Geo Data of Swiss government entities. [GitHub]
  • geospatial-data-catalogs - A list of open geospatial datasets available on AWS, Earth Engine, Planetary Computer, NASA CMR, and STAC Index.
  • GeoBeer Switzerland - GeoBeerCH is an informal meeting of people interested in geography, GIS, cartography and the latest technologies.
  • mapplus.ch - Various Geo Data portals, viewers and links.

Linked Open Data

  • LINDAS ecosystem overview - LINDAS (Linked Data Service) allows public administrations to publish their data in the form of Knowledge Graphs and make them accessible via https://lindas.admin.ch. The service is offered by the Swiss Federal Archives.
  • Fedlex - Fedlex is the Federal Chancellery platform, on which federal legislation is published. It is primarily used to publish the Official Federal Gazette, the Official Compilation of Federal Legislation and the Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation, i.e. the consolidated version of federal legislation and international law texts.
  • Federal Geoportal Linked Data - Linked Data Service of the Federal Geoportal.
  • Stadt Zürich LOD
  • Linked Data Meetup - The Linked Data Meetup is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Archives (BAR) and the BFH's Public Sector Transformation Institute. The meetup is aimed at users of linked data, especially in the LINDAS environment.

APIs

Organizations, Initiatives, Events and Projects

  • Statistical Institutions in Switzerland
  • Korstat - Conference of the regional statistical offices in Switzerland.
  • Statistiktage - Annual conference organized by Swiss Statistical Society and IMSD.
  • Project Rosling - Swiss Confederation's «Project Rosling» aims to expand dialogue on data and statistics and deepen knowledge.
  • opendata.ch - Swiss section of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
  • opendata.ch - List of hackathons and events.
  • Open Data Beer
  • Prototype Fund - A funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that is managed and evaluated by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Individuals and small teams (of coders, hackers, designers and more) can receive funding in order to test their ideas and develop open source applications in the areas of Civic Tech, Data Literacy, IT Security and Software Infrastructure.
  • öffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch - Forum for transparency in administration.
  • Parldigi - Parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit.
  • DINACON - Conference for digital sustainability.
  • Lobbywatch - Lobbywatch enables citizens and media professionals to find out what interests politicians in Bern represent. They offer their data as an open database for own evaluations.

Newsletters

Podcasts

Miscellaneous

  • Swiss OGD information
  • Swiss OGD strategy
  • Geschäftsstelle OGD BFS - This unit coordinates measures to implement the OGD strategy of the Swiss government and provides support to both data publisher and users.
  • Digitale Verwaltung Schweiz
  • National data management NaDB - The I14Y interoperability platform is available since June 2021 to promote the multiple use of data. All of the Federal Administration’s data collections are described here. In addition, a directory of electronic interfaces (APIs) will facilitate access to the actual data.
  • Swiss DCAT Standard - eCH-0200 DCAT-Profile for Swiss data portals.
  • adminR Code Base - A curated list of R packages & R code created and used by Swiss public institutions.
  • Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit Uni Bern - The Research Center for Digital Sustainability deals with key topics such as Digital Sustainability, Open Data, Linked Data, and Open Government. The center offers studies, research, services, support, and lectures (see below) in these areas.
  • Open Data lectures Uni Bern - Comprehensive lectures about Open Data in Switzerland provided by Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit of the University of Bern.
  • Swiss OSS Benchmark - Comprehensive list of open source GitHub repos/orgs of Swiss institutions.

Media

Swiss data journalism teams.

Social Media

International

Interesting international data portals and websites

Data portals and sources

Curated lists

Miscellaneous

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