Exploring Australia’s Research Data Portal – researchdata.edu.au

Did you know that Australia has a dedicated Research Data Portal that aggregates an impressive 224,000 datasets, with 96,000 of them available online?

This portal works as a powerful search engine across dozens of academic repositories, archives, government open data portals, and geospatial portals. In many ways, it feels similar to Dateno, offering search across nine types of facets (filters).

What’s even more interesting is that it doesn’t stop at datasets: you can also search for research projects, people and organizations, services, and software products, among others. A large share of the materials are published under open licenses.

For comparison, Dateno currently lists 676,000 datasets related to Australia, mostly from open data and geospatial portals. However, it includes far fewer research datasets — largely because there are already strong specialized tools like this portal. In that sense, Research Data and Dateno complement each other rather than compete.

One note: the Research Data portal has very few statistical datasets or time series, which is surprising given Australia’s advanced official statistics publishing systems.

📌 We likely won’t index this portal directly in Dateno — but indexing the original sources that feed into it is definitely on our radar.

👉 If you work with research data or open data in Australia, this is a resource worth bookmarking!