Datasets
Astronomical Datasets
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- MAST - A NASA-funded tool for searching astronomy data archives
- NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
- PDS - Asteroid and Dust Archive
- Small Bodies Data Archives - NASA Extragalactic Database
- NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center
- Astrophysics at NSSDC
- Heliophysics at NSSDC
- Lunar and Planetary Science at NSSDC
- Image Resources at NSSDC
- NRAO VLA Sky Survey - a 1.4 GHz continuum survey covering the entire sky north of -40 deg declination
- MAST Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) - digitized photographic plates from Hubble and others
- HyperLEDA extragalactic Physics
- SSS - SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
- Swift Data Center - data from the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
- XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre - The XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission - Newton) is an orbiting X-ray observatory, named in honor of Sir Isaac Newton
- Chandra Data Archive - an archive of X-Ray data observations across different missions
- MIT X-Ray Timing Explorer Project
- RXTE Data - the full version of the X-Ray Timing Explorer Project Data
- Google’s Astronomy data archives list
- Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg - hosts catalog searching services like:
- VizieR Service - astonomical database retrieval service, also links to the Aladin Sky Atlas & Simbad Astronomical Database and other goodies
- Hubble Space Telescope Science Data Archinve
- Hubble Telescope European Homepage - "fun and educational" datasets provide by NASA
- National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center - access spectral line observations and WAPP data, Ionosonde Data, Arecibo World Day data from 1986 to the present,daily RINEX files, the global broadcast files and JPL ionex files from NASA, Lidar data
- ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
- International Virtual Observatory Alliance - an organization enabling collaboration for access to data gathered by astronomical observatories:
- SkyView - The Internet’s Virtual Telescope
- National Virtual Observatory - Discover, retrieve, and analyze astronomical data from archives and data centers around the world
- AstroGrid - a software interface to the many Virtual Observatories
Biotechnology Information
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - hosts GenBank, Molecular databases, Genomic biology, and other tools:
- Ribosomal Database Project - provides ribosome related data and services including online data analysis and aligned and annotated Bacterial and Archaeal small-subunit 16S rRNA sequences
- Helisphere Technology Center - Data from H. sapiens digital gene expression, and E. coli, S. aureus, and R. sphaeroides genome resequencing. Some open-source software also available.
- Biological Informatics Blog - Contains a wealth of info!
- Wooly Mammoth DNA
- Ensembl - The Ensembl project produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species, and makes this information freely available online.
- Rfam - a large collection of multiple sequence alignments and covariance models covering many common non-coding RNA families
- modENCODE - sequence-based functional elements of the Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster genomes
Life Sciences/Health Care
- National Cancer Institute - Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results. Providing information on cancer statistics.
- National Cancer Institute - Datasets and research tools/software
- PubChem - Search chemical compounds, substances, and bioassays as well as structural search.
- National Human Genome Research Institute - Lots and lots of genomic data...
- HapMap Project - a 3 year project to map the genetic differences and similarities between groups of humans. Now complete.
- Cancer Genomics Publications Data Sets - from the Broad Institute at MIT
- HCUP Databases - HCUP family of administrative longitudinal databases contains discharge-level information on inpatient care in U.S. hospitals or ambulatory surgery encounters
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics
- CDC's weekly and cumulative flu data
- US FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
- Medicare.gov - compare hospitals
- Minnesota's Health Data and Statistics website
Climate/Geology/Earth Data/Energy
- data.gov - social and geological US government data
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory - a collection of links to renewable energy datasets in the areas of: biomass, solar energy, and wind resources.
- National Solar Radiation Database
- National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Oceanic and Atmospheric Monitoring & Data, United States Climate Data and Maps, Global Climate Data & Maps, Pacific Island Climate Data and Maps, and Monitoring Model Forecast Performance
- National Climatic Data Center
- NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis - weekly report on a one-degree grid analysis using in situ and satellite SSTs plus SSTs simulated by sea ice cover
- NOAA CoastWatch sea surface temperature (SST)
- National Geophysical Data Center - Information on Space Weather and Solar Events, Earth Observations from Space, Geomagnetic Data and Models, Natural Hazards, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Bathymetry and Global Relief
- Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) of the National Climate Data Center - contains historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide. Part of the National Climatic Data Center.
- USGS - Contains lots of geographical and Earth Data:
- USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge
- USGS Seamless Server
- USGS Historical Elevation Data
- USGS Geology
- USGS Geospatial Program
- USGS Water Program
- British Atomspheric Data Centre - data on Britain's ecosystem
- Carbon Sequestration Atlas
- Satellite Geodesy FTP SRTM30_PLUS - 33 files of global topography from Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- Australian GeoScience Earth Data - grid files of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - data from Antarctica
- The Antarctic Master Directory
- Antarctic Digital Database
- Antarctic Map Catalogue
- SCAR-MarBIN data portal
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) - Earth observation studies
- Marble global dataset - detailed Earth satellite maps
- The UK National Archives - Coastal Protection Survey of England
- OpenStreetMap.org - open source dataset of world map vector data - downloadable and user editable.
- India Water Portal - meteorological data from around Inda. Website is run by a non-profit that gets its data from the Tyndall Centre in the UK.
- Governance of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem - The Online Digital Library of West Coast Ocean Law
- GeoBase - free geospatial data for Canada, maintained by the Canadian Council on Geomatics
- AGI's Satellite Database in KML - the most comprehensive space object dataset. Includes "space junk"!
- WIST - NASA's slow search interface for a vast amount of data
- WisconsinView - Aerial, satellite, and tornado data on the state of Wisconsin
- USGS Global Visualization Viewer - Satellite images covering the entire globe.
- USGS EarthExplorer - USGS's interactive map to locate data from a variety of sources, including satellite and aerial imagery.
Technology/Business/Social/Internet/Open Data/IT/Image Databases
- CrunchBase
- Semantic CrunchBase - an RDF/SPARQL interface to CrunchBase
- Linking Open Dataset and Cloud
- RIPE database - contains IP addresses, Autonomous System Numbers, organisations or customers that are associated with these resources, and related Points of Contact
- AOL Search Query Logs - about 3 months of 650,000 users search queries. Released by accident, but widely available.
- Wisconsin Longitudinal Study - a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women.
- U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics - rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to equity in athletics data.
- Finder! - a website that helps the user find geographical data for various categories (like education for instance).
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity around the globe
- Research at the World Bank
- ImageProcessingPlace.com - a collection of labeled images.
- PostYour.info - Open worldwide database of statistical information on social aspects of life.
Finance/Economic/Social Science Datasets
- data.gov - social and geological US government data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - From the US Dept of Labor
- US Census Bureau
- US Census Bureau Stats
- UK Data Archive - curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK
- Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) - Armed Conflict, Regime Authority & India Conflict
- EM-DAT - Emergency Events Database, from the WHO
- National Mortgage Data Repository - The National Mortgage Data Repository (NMDR) is the only national collection of mortgage loan information designed to track subprime and predatory loan terms and lender practices
- Irish Social Science Data Archive (issda) - Surveys and official statistics such as the Census from Ireland
- Central Statistics Office Ireland
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- UNdata - data from UN programs
- United Nations Economic Comission for Europe
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- European Central Bank Statistics
- EuroStat
- Council of European Social Science Data Archives - CESSDA is an umbrella organisation for social science data archives across Europe