What's new in DoDis?

Extension of contents of DoDiS:

• Digitizing of the first series of DDS (volumes 1-15, documents 1848-1945) (completed June 2007). The integration of the indizes (persons) is completed for vol. 1-6.
• Integration of results of the Independent Commission of Expert Switzerland - Second World War (ICE):
  - integration of the registers (persons, organizations, geographical terms) of all publications of the ICE into DoDiS (completed)
  - integration (as PDF file) of the documents in the appendices of the publications (in process)
  - integration of the UEK data base in DoDiS: completed March 2008

DoDiS is the Internet database of Swiss Diplomatic Documents (DDS). It contains comprehensive information on documents, personalities, organizations, geographical terms and bibliographical references concerning the foreign relations of Switzerland.

The DoDiS Internet database was conceived as a way of publishing the documents for the volumes of the second period (from vol. 16, 1945 and following years) in digital form. Unlike the printed publication, the database provides no scientific annotations and annexes. Parallel use of the printed publication therefore offers considerable benefits. (As an exception DoDiS includes also some documents from the period before 1945.)

DoDiS displays all documentes of the second serie as image (by PDF format). In addition to this first group, DoDiS includes more documents which haven't been published in the printed editon. A third group in DoDiS are those documents without image (including literature). For more detailed explanations see Contents of the database. The Thematic list supports your search of subjects or countries.

With Simple search (Help) you can search records within documents in following fields: DoDis No., titel, summary and/or date/period. Or you can search for persons, organizations, geographical terms, subjects or archive classification and find the documents that are linked with these keywords.

With Combined Search (Help) you can combine the document search (DoDiS No., title, summary and/or date/period) with keywords, i.e. links of the document with persons, organizations, geographical terms, subjects and/or archive classification).

If you want to mention documents from DoDiS, please have a look at the recommendations for quoting.