Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)
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Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)HuNI combines data from many Australian cultural websites into the biggest humanities and creative arts database ever assembled in Australia. HuNI data covers all disciplines and brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations and places that make up the country's rich cultural landscape.
Licenced Datasets
Western Sydney University has signed agreements with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) that entitle our researchers to apply free of charge access to the following confidential datasets:
- HILDA, LSAC, LSIC and BNLA Survey Datasets
- TableBuilder and Microdata
- 45 and Up Study Data
- LDC Data
For more information about accessing these datasets, see the Library website.
For further advice, please contact: digital@westernsydney.edu.au
You may also be interested in the University Library guide to Australian Bureau of Statistics Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) and TableBuilder. CURFs contain the most detailed statistical information available from the ABS and are for researchers and analysts who wish to run their own statistical queries on the data using software packages such as SAS or SPSS.
Statistics
Visit the University Library guide to Statistics for additional resources.
Open Data Resources
The following list provides a small selection of sources for open data. The data directories listed in the box to the right side of this page offer additional lists of data repositories, which may be useful in your field of research.
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Research Data AustraliaResearch Data Australia is an Internet-based discovery service designed to provide rich connections between data, projects, researchers and institutions, and promote visibility of Australian research data collections in search engines.
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Australian Data Archive (ADA)The Australian Data Archive (ADA) provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis by academic researchers and other users.
The ADA is comprised of seven sub-archives:
- ADA Social Science
- ADA Historical
- ADA Indigenous
- ADA Longitudinal
- ADA Qualitative
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CSIRO Data Access PortalThe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. The CSIRO Data Access Portal provides access to data published by CSIRO across a range of disciplines.
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The Atlas of Living AustraliaThe Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.
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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments. The data accessible through GBIF relate to evidence about more than 1.5 million species, collected over three centuries of natural history exploration and including current observations from citizen scientists, researchers and automated monitoring programmes.
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AlveoAlveo provides on-line infrastructure for accessing human communication data sets (speech, texts, music, video, etc.) and for using specialised tools for searching, analysing and annotating that data.
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Data.gov.auData.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government. The site provides both downloadable datasets and links to online data services provided by other government sources.
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Google Public Data ExplorerThe Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
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World Bank DataFree and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.
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The GDELT ProjectThe GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
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The DataHubDatahub is a free, powerful data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation, based on the CKAN data management system. Users can browse or search for data, and preview it using maps, graphs and tables.
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Global Health Observatory (GHO) dataThe GHO data repository contains an extensive list of indicators, which can be selected by theme or through a multi-dimension query functionality. It is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository.
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Data Directories
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Open Access Directory: Data RepositoriesThe Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. This page provides a list of repositories and databases for open data.
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re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositoriesre3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.