Die Schweizer Forschungsinfrastruktur ortsnamen.ch

Abstract

The internet platform ortsnamen.ch (or toponymes.ch in French)
hosts Swiss toponymic data from scientific sources. Its main purpose, especially
in the beginning, was and is to archive regional toponymic projects and publish
them online. Recently the platform has added significant new data sources
to its database, and it has become bilingual with its new French version. In
addition to its website, ortsnamen.ch also makes its data available through
web services (REST API). It has grown to be an important and dynamic supraregional
research infrastructure for different scientific fields, as well as an information
platform for the wider public.