|  CollectionsA collection contains datasets and other collections, and sometimes helper objects like places and instruments. Datasets in turn may contain other datasets. | Times, places, ...TimesPlaces is for datasets ABOUT times or places, e.g. meteo data, NOT for lab experiments or publication dates. | What is this?founded by 3TU.Federation. It stores datasets originating from technical and scientific research in the Netherlands. OPeNDAP Some datasets reside on our OPeNDAP server.
This has certain benefits for data formats like NetCDF (see right column) or hdf-5. These benefits include: view of metadata, slices and subsamples of data, aggregation of datasets, access with APIs (Java, Python, Matlab, ...).
But all these datasets are also accessible through our regular website, with the appropriate links to profit from these benefits. | What's new?There are currently 5542 datasets.
Latest datasets added: |
| Data formats & tech stuffNetCDF
Many datasets are formatted as NetCDF.
For some NetCDF datasets, we also provide
plain text ( CDL)
and xml ( NcML)
and, for not too big or complex dataset, simple CSV and Excel versions.
 Other formats
We do not restrict ourselves to a list of allowed formats; however, we strongly encourage the use of open and well-known formats.
Bagit
Datasets may be stored as a zipped bagit archive.
Bagit is a format to add basic metadata and integrity checks to an arbitrary directory tree with data files.
DOIs
Datasets with sufficient metadata receive a DOI, providing durable links and citability.
Linked data
RDF/XML links on each page point to ORE Resource maps
describing the contents and links to other resources in a way that enables integration in Semanic Web applications.
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