Registry of Research Data Repositories |
Listing of many repositories in all subject areas. |
FAIRsharing |
"A curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies." Lists lots of repositories, standards, and knowledgebases. |
Zenodo |
Hosted by CERN. "All fields of research. All types of research artifacts." Open data for open science. Up to 50GB per record, or by arrangement. |
BioImage Archive |
A free, publicly available online resource for biological images that are either associated with a peer-reviewed publication, or of value beyond a single experiment. |
Figshare https://figshare.com/ |
Choice of CC license. |
Giga Data Base (GigaDB) http://gigadb.org/ |
Uses CC0 (public domain) licensing. |
iDigBio |
The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by NSF. Data and images for millions of biological specimens. |
MorphoSource |
Duke Univ. Especially for museum specimens. |
Brain Image Library |
"... national public resource enabling researchers to deposit, analyze, mine, share and interact with large brain image datasets." |
Morph·D·Base https://www.morphdbase.de/ |
Morphological Description Data Base. Not easy to access. |
MorphoBank http://www.morphobank.org/ |
"Homology of phenotypes & a database of peer-reviewed morphological matrices" |
Digital Fish Library (DFL) |
Fish. |
Digital Morphology (Digimorph) |
Univ. Texas microCT library. Lots of fossils and other vertebrate samples, stacks, movies and more. |
Dryad http://datadryad.org/ |
Uses CC0 (public domain) licensing. |
Phenome10k http://phenome10k.org/ |
CT and surface scans of biological and palaeontological specimens (skulls). |
Harvard Dataverse |
All kinds of data. Set up your own dataverse collection, up to 1TB. |
MorphoMuseuM (M3) |
Mainly surface models. A peer reviewed, online journal that publishes 3D models of vertebrates, anatomy atlases, and 3D datasets. Also direct submission. |
Aves 3D http://aves3d.org/ |
Bird bones and skeletons |
heidICON |
Image and multimedia database. Die Heidelberger Bilddatenbank, is the "Virtual Slide Collection" in progress of Heidelberg University. |
Sammlungen Göttingen |
Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. |
Image Data Resource (IDR) |
A public repository of reference image datasets from published scientific studies. (Williams et al 2017) |
Phaidra (UniVie) |
Phaidra is the repository for the permanent secure storage of digital assets at the University of Vienna. |
GitHub https://github.com/ |
The place for open software |
New Mexico Decedent
Image Database (NMDID) |
provides researchers with access to whole human body computed tomography (CT) scans and a rich body of associated metadata. |
FaceBase |
Comprehensive craniofacial data (including 3D imaging datasets) from model organisms (mouse and zebrafish) and humans. |
MorphoBrowser |
‘MorphoBrowser’ database and interface is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web. |
Phenome10K |
A free online repository for 3-D scans of biological and palaeontological specimens. |
Genetics of
craniofacial shape in Mus |
High-resolution 3D microCT head scans of a mouse panel between C57BL/6J and A/J mouse strains and associated genotype data. Contains mCT scans of ~500 mice heads and associated cranial landmarks. |
Digital Morphology
Museum of Kyoto University (KUPRI) |
DMM provides a large collection of CT and MRI tomography scans of various primates. |
The Open Research
Scan Archive |
(formerly Penn Cranial CT Database) contains high resolution (sub-millimeter) scans of human and non-human crania from the Penn University Museum and other institutions. |
Fossils Online project, aims to develop a single database of the type specimens, held in British collections, of macrofossil species and subspecies found in the UK, including links to photographs and a selection of 3D digital models. |
Other sources for 3D images:
The Visible Human Project |
Full-body images of a male and female adult |
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Thingiverse |
Loads of cool 3D models for 3D printing |
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Phaidra (UniVie) |
Phaidra is the repository for the permanent secure storage of digital assets at the University of Vienna. |
A lot of these repositories and many others for various kinds of data and documents are listed at PUBLISSO (itself a repository):
https://www.publisso.de/en/research-data-management/publishing/publisso-repository-finder/
Also good to know is DataCite: https://datacite.org/