E-pics

E-Pics start page (excerpt)

E-Pics is ETH Zurich's platform for digitized and digital images, photographs and illustrations. On the one hand, it comprises publicly accessible image catalogs and, on the other hand, it serves as a tool for the university units to manage images from science. E-Pics also contains catalogs from institutions outside the university.

Digital offers

Many images can be downloaded free of charge in the sense of open data . The type of license and conditions of use are specified for the individual images. In the picture archive online catalog, the public can participate in the cataloging of the pictures in the form of crowdsourcing.

Content focus

The publicly accessible catalogs of E-Pics mainly contain images from the collections and archives of ETH Zurich that are historically and culturally significant as well as of national interest. These include, for example, photographs from the ETH Library's image archive, images from old prints, works of art on the two campuses of ETH Zurich, objects from the earth science collections, the historical instrument collection of the former Swiss Federal Observatory in Zurich, and photos of animals, plants and biotopes. With the picture catalogs of the Max Frisch Archive and the Thomas Mann Archive, literary bequests from two important writers are also represented. In addition, there are current photographs of buildings, teaching, research, events and university life at ETH Zurich. Two other important customers outside the ETH are the Swiss Photo Foundation in Winterthur and the photographic collection of the building history archive of the city of Zurich .

Cooperation partner

E-Pics is operated by the ETH Library . Technically, the platform is based on Canto Cumulus software from Canto.

Key figures inventory

A total of around 640,000 images are currently publicly accessible (as of December 2017).

Current projects

Images and metadata from the image archive of the ETH-Bibliothek are continuously published on Wikimedia Commons via mass upload and can therefore be integrated into Wikipedia even more easily.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Collect. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ Offer. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ Blog crowdsourcing. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ Volunteers solved 5751 picture puzzles. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ Documentation. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ Media contributed by the ETH library. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[1] Collect. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[2] Offer. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[3] Blog crowdsourcing. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[4] Volunteers solved 5751 picture puzzles. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[5] Documentation. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .

[6] Media contributed by the ETH library. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .