Library guides: Research data: Science Technology & Engineering

Science Technology & Engineering

Australian Science Technology & Engineering Data

All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO)
Links observational data sets and theoretical infrastructure capabilities enabling new approaches to astronomical research. It includes datasets from Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory, SkyMapper, Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) Node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO), Murchison Widefield Array, CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive.
Atlas of Living Australia
Australian biodiversity data collected by institutions, individual collectors and community groups. Tools include a spatial portal to map, visualise and analyse relationships between species, location and environment and a data collection tool for biodiversity science. It is the Australian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
AuScope Geoscience Virtual Research Environment
Data, visualisation and analytics for geoscience. Includes geological models from around Australia in 3D, a data discovery portal, AusPass service for acquisition, management and distribution of passive seismological data, computational and HPC tools and more.
AusTraits
An open-source, harmonized database of Australian plant trait data. It synthesises data on nearly 500 traits across more than 30,000 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions.
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Data includes, temporal, spatial, biological and physical data on biodiversity, sea ice, weather and environment, species, state of the environment. GIS datasets, satellite images, maps and charts, track and underway data are also available.
Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)
The AODN Portal provides access to all available Australian marine and climate science data and provides the primary access to IMOS ocean current data including access to the IMOS metadata.
Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA)
An indexing service for aggregating, discovering, filtering and accessing complex life science data. Includes reference genome assemblies, genome annotations, population and variant sets, DNA barcodes, coding and non-coding DNA sequences and raw genomics data.
EcoCommons
Access datasets from Atlas of Living Australia, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Australian Ecological Knowledge and Observation System, and the Ocean Bio-geographic Information System database, then run experiments, use models and visualize results. Griffith University is a partner in the platform.
GeoNetwork : NCI Data Catalogue
Includes data on climatology, meteorology, atmosphere, environment, imagery, oceans and geoscientific information.
Geoscience Australia Online Tools
Online data and tools including earthquake mapping, airborne surveys, Geochron delivery, Australian flood risk information portal, rock properties explorer, interactive maps, 3D models and more.
GSKY from NCI
A distributed geospatial data server exposing OGC services developed at the NCI. It provides a high performance service for environmental and geophysical data based on data aggregation, data cubes and coordinate transformations. Has the ability for users to interact with entire datasets and the information they contain using standard community protocols. Uses protocols used by geospatial community enabling many client software services can access data via GSKY.
Open Ecoacoustics
Data, tools and training for researchers from a community of Australian organisations. Includes repositories which contain information and audio recording annotations for fauna that make human-audible sounds.
OzCoasts maps and data
Integrated maps and data on sea level rise & coastal Inundation;satellite coastal & marine data;coastal geomorphology; from various government and scientific sources and available to researchers and local government and community groups.
Queensland Spatial Catalogue (Qspatial)
Public access to spatial and associated data. Data available in selected formats, including map coverage data, image data and text file data. Includes: Regional ecosystem series, QLD mining and exploration tenure series, QLD geology series and QLD globe and live services. Users require GIS software to access the data. Freely available and copyright restrictions apply. Licensing arrangements vary for individual resources.
TERN AusCover
Earth observation data and products that describe land-surface and environmental characteristics derived using satellite and airborne imagery. The AusCover facility provides access to remote sensing data and derived products, associated with land-surface characteristics and biophysical variables derived from satellite and airborne imagery.
Terra Nova - The Australian Climate Change Adaptation Information Hub
Information and research data on nationally significant sectors and regions that are most vulnerable to climate change threats. Utilise adaptation decision support tools and interactive climate model visualisations.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Data & Coesra
Australia’s land ecosystem observatory. TERN data providers observe, measure and record critical terrestrial ecosystem parameters and conditions for Australia over time from continental scale to field sites at hundreds of locations. The information is standardised, integrated and transformed into model-ready data, enabling researchers to discern and interpret changes in land ecosystems.
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS)
Serves many of NCI’s open data collections at the file level, as well as some aggregations. It provides many different types of services to allow individual files to be selected, as well as more advanced services such as OpenDAP, NetCDF subsetting, OGC WCS and WMS. The THREDDS server is programmatically accessible, which is how many advanced tools and portals use our service.

International Science Technology & Engineering Data

Astrophysics data system (ADS)
Provides discovery, access and links to Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Physics research including publications, astronomical object information, data catalogs and data sets. Search, metrics, export and libraries APIs are available.
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
Global repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Containing structures from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses, it provides accurate 3D structures, chemical representations, as well as bibliographic, chemical and physical property information, adding further value to the raw structural data. Analysis and visualisation software is available via CSD-Enterprise.
Centre for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
CAIDA operates active and passive measurement infrastructures enabling visibility into global Internet behavior. Datasets resulting from the measurements are curated, archived and shared along with multiple derivative datasets. Access to restricted data by application with terms and conditions.
Code Ocean
Develop, share, publish, and download code through a web browser, eliminating the need to install software on personal computers. The platform includes executable, cloud-based computational environment to preserve, publish & reproduce research code & data.
Copernicus SARA Data Portal
This data portal, the Sentinel Australasia Regional Access (SARA), provides fast access to the data cache on NCI for selected datasets, particularly for the Australasian region, which are a replica from the master site maintained in Europe.
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
A federated data network providing access to and preserves data about, life on Earth and the environment. Search records from over 42 data centers including TERN, Artic Data Centre, EDAC, Pangea and more. Metadata is open and provides links to originating repositories for access and conditions.
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
World's largest collection of remotely sensed images of the Earth’s land surface and the primary source of Landsat satellite images and data products. Includes NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and EarthExplorer. Also provides access to MODIS land data products from the NASA Terra and Aqua missions, and ASTER level-1B data products over the U.S. and Territories from the NASA ASTER mission.
European Bioinformatics Institute Tools & Data Resources (EMBL-EBI)
Up-to-date molecular data resources. Developed in worldwide collaboration, you share can data, perform complex queries and analyse the results in different ways. Users can work locally by downloading data and software, or use web services to access resources programmatically with APIs.
Github
Largest host and repository of source code in the world. Provides hosting for software development version control. It offers distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git with more features.
Global Archive : ecological data
Repository of fish image annotation, stereo calibration and associated information, provides the ability to upload data with flexible file formats. Explore, query and share this data with other users across different projects and institutions. Created by University of Western Australia.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
An international network and research infrastructure funded by governments providing open access to data about all types of life on Earth. CSIRO manages Australian node of the platform. A spectrum of data from historical, museum specimens to geotagged smartphone images for access and use.
GlyGen
Computational and Informatics Resources for Glycoscience. GlyGen retrieves information from multiple international data sources and integrates and harmonizes this data. This web portal allows exploring this data and performing unique searches across mulitple sources.
HydroShare
CUAHSI's online collaboration environment for sharing hydrology related data, models, and code.
International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)
A spectrum of data raw reads, through alignments and assemblies to functional annotation, enriched with contextual information relating to samples and experimental configurations. The database collaboration operates between DDBJ, EMBL-EBI and NCBI.
Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP)
A comprehensive quality-controlled database of oceanographic data obtained in Polar Regions from instrumented marine mammals. Includes databases of quality-controlled CTD profiles, submesoscale-resolving high density CTD data , and high spatial density temperature/light data.
NASA's Earth Data
Data discovery and access to more than 33,000 Earth observation data collections from NASA’s EOSDIS, U.S. and international partner agencies. Filter by discipline, platform, instrument, or by day/time and spatial region. Also includes tools for geolocation, reprojection, and mapping data visualization and analysis.
NASA data portal
Open-data, including source code, APIs, visualizations and more. Explore datasets by domain, field of science, or mission. Also includes open-data and open-code aggregator sites that collect open-data and open-code from across all federal government agencies; code.gov and data.gov all linked via the data portal.
National Center for Functional Glycomics (NCFG)
Bioinformatics and Databases developed by NCFG available to researchers. Managed by Harvard University and funded by NIH.
NCBI GenBank
The NIH genetic sequence database is an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. The database is designed for the scientific community to provide and encourage access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive DNA sequence information. A release occurs every two months and is available from the ftp site.
NCI Node: Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
The NCI ESGF node currently hosts Australian produced data for the CMIP5, CMIP6, CORDEX, GeoMIP and PMIP3 data collections. The EGSF is designed to integrate and interoperate with other software developed by the ESGF collaborators: such as NASA, NOAA, ESIP, and the European IS-ENES.
NDEx (The Network Data Exchange)
The NDEx Project provides an open-source framework where scientists and organizations can share, store, manipulate, and publish biological network knowledge.
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
A global open-access data and information platform on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development. Search and map datasets by species name, higher taxonomic level, geographic area, depth, time and environmental parameters. OBIS data originates from the Census of Marine Life (2000-2010).
Open Data for Resiliance Initiative (OpenDRI)
To communicate risk more effectively to decision-makers in planning, preparedness and response activities, OpenDRI works with governments and partners to develop InaSAFE software. By combining data from scientists, local governments and communities, InaSAFE provides insights into the likely effects of disaster events.
Optical Astronomy data services via NCI
NCI publishes Optical Astronomy datasets using IVOA compliant services, such as an installation of the CSIRO ASKAP Data Archive TAP data service.

SciFinder-N
Find journals, patents, chemical structures and reactions, and other publications for chemistry, engineering, pharmacy and medicine.
SciFindern̳ is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemical engineering. It has the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. It provides integrated access to CAPlus, CAS registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCATS, which are produced by Chemical Abstracts Service; and to MEDLINE, which is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. As in its earlier interation titled SciFinder, sources covered include over 10,000 journals, patents from over 60 patent authorities, book chapters, conference proceedings, dissertations, evaluated reference works, technical reports, as well as book reviews and biographical information. 15 million PatentPak PDFs are included, as well as 5 million synthetic protocols. SciFindern̳ provides researchers with improved searching functionality and additional tools to analyze and manipulate retrieved data sets.

Skymapper data services
Data from the Skymapper telescope is available via three methods. SkyMapper Southern Survey data — a simple cone search of the catalogues around a given sky position, arbitrary queries of the full database and external tables using ADQL, and reduced image cutouts with WCS around a given sky position. All three methods can also be accessed through Virtual Observatory-compatible tools such as TOPCAT, Aladin and custom scripts.
Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (AMDC)
A federated database providing access to a broad range of atomic and molecular (A&M) data from worldwide consortium of organisations. The VAMDC Portal provides a web service to convert a XSAMS file containing spectroscopic molecular data into a file in HITRAN format.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine organisms, including information on synonym.