Repositories for 3D image (and other) data

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OpenAIRE https://explore.openaire.eu/	Search millions of open datasets.
Zenodo https://zenodo.org/	Open data for open science. "All fields of research. All types of research artifacts." Hosted by CERN. My general favorite.
BioImage Archive https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive	Hosts "data from any imaging modality, …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 https://www.idigbio.org/	The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by NSF. Data and images for millions of biological specimens.
MorphoSource http://morphosource.org/	Duke Univ. Especially for museum specimens. (Boyer et al 2017)
MorphoBank    http://www.morphobank.org/	"Homology of phenotypes & a database of peer-reviewed morphological matrices"
MorphBank :: Biological Imaging    http://www.morphbank.net/	For specimen-based research in comparative anatomy, morphological phylogenetics, taxonomy and related fields.
Morph·D·Base   https://www.morphdbase.de/	Morphological Description Data Base. Relatively few specimens.
Digital Fish Library (DFL) http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org/	Fish.
Digital Morphology (Digimorph) http://digimorph.org/	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 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/	All kinds of data. Set up your own dataverse collection, up to 1TB.
MorphoMuseuM (M3) https://morphomuseum.com/	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 https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/search	Image and multimedia database. Die Heidelberger Bilddatenbank, is the "Virtual Slide Collection" in progress of Heidelberg University.
Sammlungen Göttingen https://sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de/	Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
Image Data Resource (IDR) https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/about/	A public repository of reference image datasets from published scientific studies. (Williams et al 2017)
Phaidra (UniVie) https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/	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) https://nmdid.unm.edu/welcome	provides researchers with access to whole human body computed tomography (CT) scans and a rich body of associated metadata.
FaceBase https://www.facebase.org/	Comprehensive craniofacial data (including 3D imaging datasets) from model organisms (mouse and zebrafish) and humans.
MorphoBrowser http://morphobrowser.biocenter.helsinki.fi/	‘MorphoBrowser’ database and interface is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web.
Phenome10K http://phenome10k.org/	A free online repository for 3-D scans of biological and palaeontological specimens.
Genetics of craniofacial shape in Mus https://osf.io/w4wvg/	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) http://dmm4.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dmm/WebGallery/index.html	DMM provides a large collection of CT and MRI tomography scans of various primates.
The Open Research Scan Archive https://www.penn.museum/sites/orsa/Overview.html	(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.
GB3D http://www.3d-fossils.ac.uk/search.cfm	Fossils Online project aims to develop a database of the type specimens in British collections, including links to photographs and a selection of 3D digital models.

  

 Lists of repositories:

FAIRsharing.org https://fairsharing.org/	Lots of repositories (like all of them) and standards, policies, etc.
Registry of Research Data Repositories http://re3data.org/	Listing of many repositories in all subject areas.

 

Other sources for 3D images: 

The Visible Human Project https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html	Full-body images of a male and female adult
Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/	Loads of cool 3D models for 3D printing
Digital Morphology Museum, KUPRI http://dmm.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dmm/WebGallery/index.html	Kyoto Univ. Primate Research Institute’s  collection of CT and MRI tomography scans.