Searching for Research Data: Open Data Sources

The Danish National Archives preserves Denmark’s history. You can find material from the 12th century to the present day from both authorities and private actors. Danish.

Catalogue of available data from the public sector. Run by the Agency for Digital Government. Danish.

The official portal for European data. All EU languages and English.

Library Open Access Repository (LOAR) is an open data repository established in 2016 as a service for storing and providing access to Danish research data. Danish/ English.

Open Data DK works to strengthen the display and use of open public data in Denmark. Danish.

Free and accessible data provided by Global Change Data Lab, a non-profit organization based in the UK. English.

There are a number of major distributors of data from the public sector in Denmark. The most prominent distribution platforms in the public landscape can be found here. Danish.

DataHub is a platform designed to help users find, share, and publish high-quality data. It offers thousands of free datasets. English.

Gapminder is an independent, non-profit organization that aims to combat global misconceptions and promote a fact-based worldview. Gapminder’s mission is to make data accessible and understandable for everyone, helping to foster a more informed and accurate perspective on global issues. English.

The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of datasets used for empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms. English.

Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world. Multilingual.

Censuses are available when they are 75 years old. The first is from 1787, and the newest on Arkvialier online is from 1940. Danish/English.

At Danish Demographic Database from the Danish National Archives you can search in censuses for information about individuals or families. Danish/English/ German

Here you can find information about all registered companies in Denmark and Greenland. Danish/English/Kalaallisut.

At folketingstidende.dk you can find bills, resolutions, inquiries and statements from the Danish parliament. Danish/English.

Data from the Danish parliament. Danish/English/Fólkatingið/Kalaallisut.

The official Danish Statistics Office. Danish/English.

A lot of exciting publicly available data from the Airbnb site. English.

The official French data portal. French/ English/Spanish.

U.S. Government's Open Data. English.

The official British data portal. English.

The official Norwegian data portal. Norwegian/English.

The archieve with shady data about the cryptomarket. English.

Access to a wide range of digital research data for learning, teaching and research purposes. Finnish/Swedish/English.

A selection of the data behind the articles, graphics and interactives at FiveThirtyEight.com. English.

Holds study descriptions of all studies that are long-term archived at the Data Archive. You can search for studies and download or order data for secondary analysis. German/English.

The official German data portal. German.

The OECD Data Explorer provides access to all OECD statistical data. It is the entry point for figures on a wide range of statistical topics, covering OECD member countries and partner economies. English/ French.

New and existing Swedish research data within and outside of Sweden. Swedish/ English.

UK’s largest collection of digital social and economic research data. English.

The official Swedish data portal. Swedish/ English.

WHO databases and platforms provide access to understandable and timely data, transforming lives by making health and inequality data findable, browsable, and usable. English/Arabic/Chinese/French/ Russian/Spanish.

Free and open access to global development data. English/Spanish/ French/Arabic/Chinese.

CLARIN-DK is an infrastructure where researchers can deposit, share and download language-based materials, such as texts, transcriptions, encyclopedias, glossaries, audio and video files. Danish/ English.

In CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory you can search through hundreds of thousands of language resources. English

Digital Collections holds a range of digital collections, including images, printed matter, handwritten manuscripts, maps, rare books, and much more. Danish/ English

Church records from Denmark as well as overseas congregations and field priests. Danish

An open database with a corpus of digital texts, digital tools and open source software. English.

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible is a morphological tagging of the Old Testament in OSIS XML. English.

The Post-Reformation Digital Library is a repository with links to digital books. English.

A library of over 60.000 free eBooks. English.

Climate TRACE emissions data are free and publicly available for download and via API. English.

Open Data API's provide free and open access to DMI’s data. Here you can find all the information you need to register as a user and start using the API. You can also access information on data sources as well as the OpenAPI specification of the API's. English.

We have 55 million species observations - 1000+ data sets - 70 million water environment observations distributed over 30 systems. Danish.

Geographic data. Find information about data, view data on maps, access web services, and download data. Danish

Free and open access to all essential climate variable data products developed by the ESA Climate Change Initiative. English/French/German/Dutch/Spanish.

Danish Geodata Agency provides easily accessible and reliable geospatial data about the sea and real property. Danish/ English.

Maps and data about the geology of Greenland and Denmark. Danish/English.

Data about illness, treatment, and health. Danish.

Movebank is a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. English.