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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/brawer/bern-addresses
- Owner: brawer
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-04-06T13:48:37.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-31T11:51:20.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-31T12:35:26.498Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 275 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Bern Address Book
Address books of the City of Bern, published from 1860 to 1945.
The printed volumes have been scanned and are published online at
[e-rara.ch](https://www.e-rara.ch/bes_1/periodical/titleinfo/1395833).
However, the OCR quality is rather low. We re-OCRed the scanned images
and did (lots of) cleanup to bring the address book into a structured form.
For example, the printed books were full of abbreviations; we expanded them.
In 1882, many streets were renamed and most house numbers changed; we map
them (to the extent possible) to their present-day equivalents.
We assigned a [numeric CH-ISCO-19 code](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/work-income/nomenclatures/ch-isco-19.html) to every person’s
listed occupation. The long-term goal is to support research projects
that analyze quantitative data, but it would be nice to also have a
cute website for browsing the historic address book.
As of November 2025, this is still an ongoing project; we’ve only done
two volumes so far. From time to time, we publish a fresh release. To
download the latest, take the file `Berner_Adressbuch.zip` from our
[Releases page](https://github.com/brawer/bern-addresses/releases/latest).
If you have any questions about this project, please contact
[Bern City Archives](https://www.bern.ch/politik-und-verwaltung/stadtverwaltung/sk/stadtarchiv).
## License
The code for this project is released under the MIT license.
The data files are in the public domain.