CA–O–RD Project (ETH Board)
(2024–2025) Supported by the ETH Board, the project develops a digital preservation infrastructure and aims to automate file processing and enhance metadata in line with FAIR principles.
Digital Preservation
(Since 2024) Digital preservation system based on Morphé (AtoM) and Archivematica, aimed at the management, long-term preservation and sustainable access to digital archival objects.
Information System
(Since 2018) Archival information system named Morphé, based on the open-source tool AtoM for archive management and description, and extended with MorphéPlus for dissemination.
Evénements
“Digitalizza la cultura 2025”
The “Digitalizza la cultura 2025” conference enabled the ACM to share their experience in the preservation and promotion of digital architectural archives.
ORD Day 2025
Presented during the ORD (Open Research Data) Day of the ETH Domain, the CA–O–RD project aims to preserve more than 300,000 digital files related to the built environment.
Petit Colloque March 2026
The ACM present their research tools and the CA–O–RD project at the Petit Colloque of historians of the built heritage in French-speaking Switzerland, at the University of Lausanne.
Contribution to external open science projects
Smapshot / ACM Pleinciel
(2017) Open science project by HEIG-VD based on the collaborative geolocation of historical aerial photographs of Switzerland from the 1960s (participation with the Perrochet–Pleinciel collection, ACM).
AS Encyclopædia
(2020) Editorial project of AS Architecture Suisse: writing and structuring metadata for the online publication of all articles since 1972 (partially open access).
| Domains | Subdomains | Name | Provider | Format | Coverage | Scale | Privacy | Links | Used by | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | Morphé : Archival record | ENAC (ACM-EPFL) | EAD (XML), CSV | Switzerland International | 33500 records | Public (with restrictions on some records) | view | Researchers, Students, General public | Created at ENAC |
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | Morphé : Authority records | ENAC (ACM-EPFL) | SKOS | Switzerland International | 1500 records | Public (with restrictions on some records) | view | Researchers, Students, General public | Created at ENAC |
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | Morphé : Place authority records | ENAC (ACM-EPFL) | EAC-CPF (XML) | Switzerland International | 2000 records | Public (with restrictions on some records) | view | Researchers, Students, General public | Created at ENAC |
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | MorphéPlus | ENAC (ACM-EPFL) | JPEG, tabular | Switzerland International | 4300 items | Public | view | Researchers, Students, General public | Created at ENAC |
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | Archivematica | ENAC (ACM-EPFL) | METS, PREMIS, normalized formats | Switzerland International | Internal | Archivists, IT staff | Created at ENAC | ||
| Architecture Civil Engineering Urban | Buildings | SmapShot | HEIG-VD | Switzerland | 1650 items | Public | view | Researchers, Students, General public | Data created at ENAC |