Datasets

A list of links to datasets, portals and APIs produced by various Australian galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

The British Library is making copies of some of its datasets available for research and creative purposes. These are quite varied, from digitised manuscripts to keylogging data of an author writing a novel, to archives of UK websites, and others.

Data collections from the National Library of Scotland, including digitised items, collections of item metadata, maps and spatial data, and organisation data.

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) provides a digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.

A catalogue of data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology, including the Climate Data Online dataset of historical weather, temperature, rainfall and solar exposure data.

Allows users to search across the thousands of publicly accessible data packages within the DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) Member Nodes.

Geological, geophysical and geographical data, maps and models from Australia's official geoscience organisation.

Repository of freely available earth and life sciences data. Data editors review data submitted to the repository, ensuring the integrity, authenticity and high usability of datasets.

Genetics datasets from many different Australian research projects. You can browse by project or search for individual datasets. 

An annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences made available by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. TAIR consists of a searchable database, which includes many different datatypes. Data can be viewed using an interactive MapViewer, and analyzed with TAIR tools. Datasets can be downloaded. Arabidopsis lab protocols, are included. Available in 2017

A specialised trusted research data management facility for Australian Indigenous research data.

Provides access to unpublished and record-level data from First Nations Information Governance Centre's respected survey work, including the First Nations Regional Health Survey and the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey.

Follows the development of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families across urban, regional and remote Australia.

A prototype biomedical data search engine that searches for datasets across specific data repositories and sources.

A longitudinal health resource that follows the health and well-being of 500,000 volunteer participants.

A list of publicly available datasets of tweet identifiers. These Twitter datasets cover a wide range of topics, from political events, activism trends, natural disasters, through to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Archive of social science research data available to academic researchers and other users. ADA International is also a repository for studies by Australian researchers conducted in other countries, particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific region. ADA provide detailed information on how to access ADA data.