Art and Design

In-house databases and information systems:

• InK – integraded catalog of the Media Library

• Swisscovery collections of the Media Library

• Collections of Performance Art Switzerland

• Basel Collections 

• IRF – Institutional Repository FHNW 

Material and specialist portals:

• Research Catalogue 

• Silk Memory 

• eMuseum 

• Basel poster collection 

• SIK/ISEA-Art 

• Artlist 

Cultural assets portals:

• Memobase  

• Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv 

• Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv 

• Archives Online

• Kulturgüterportal und Musemsverbund 

• Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen 

• Europeana 

• European Art Net  

• PARC – Portal for African Research Collections 

• OpenData Swiss 

• Open GLAM Suvey  

Further specialist portals:

• EDUCA 

• History of Education Switzerland 

• Federal Statistical Office 

• Sammlung neue Medien BL 

• Medienarchiv der ZHdK 

• Stiftung SAPA 

• Museum of Communication 

• Archives and collections of SBB Historic 

 In addition FHNW members have access to rtstor via JSTOR. Please use VPN to access from outside the FHNW network. More licensed subject databases can be found in the database list. 

The media services of the Media Library focus on the following subject areas and related disciplines:

• Architecture / Interior Design
• Fine Arts
• Design / Creation
• Photography / Video / Music
• Contemporary Discourses
• Material / Material and Process Design
• Practice-based Research, Artistic and Design Research
• Mediation in Art and Design

Location-specific tools and services make it easier to find and publish media and research data in the Media Library.

Special tools:

• InK – integraded catalog of the Media Library 
• Inventory suite with room information and PrimoBridge 
• Data analysis with Elastic Search and Kibana 

Research related services:

• Research data workflows with gOCFL and RoCrate 
• Collection consulting / digital collection management 
• Datastewarship, information and data literacy in the arts 

If you have any questions or are interested, please contact mediathek.hgk@fhnw.ch.