The Best BnF authorities Alternatives in 2026

Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes provides searchable digital resources from French humanist libraries.

France’s national transport data access point gathers mobility datasets and provides APIs, validation tools, and recent dataset listings.

France’s National 3D Data Repository provides a deposit and discovery system for 3D data, with catalog categories and collections.

The Swedish Enforcement Authority explains what open data is and how it can be reused and shared.

France's Multi-Terminology Server supports searching terminology alignments, earlier versions, and medical translation tools.

VIAF combines multiple library name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted authority service.

Seoul's open data portal provides access to municipal datasets and information on searching, using, and requesting public records.

Moldova's open data portal supports searching datasets and lists records from government organizations across topics such as health and institutions.

The Lisses portal lists municipal administrative records and other public data from the town in Essonne.

Tyresö's open data portal provides municipal information for reuse, including records that can support application development.

The IANUS portal provides archaeological and ancient studies research data, with records such as rock art from the Ennedi Highlands.

Ukraine's official open data portal lets visitors search datasets, browse publishers, and explore public records across topic categories.

Israel's government data portal brings together public datasets from government ministries and supports searching the records.

Edaphobase provides a data-query portal for soil fauna research and associated records.

Japan's National Tax Agency portal lets users search corporate names, addresses, and identification numbers and download the listed records.

DDBJ supports searching and retrieving database records, data submissions, and related services through Japan's DNA Data Bank.

Search atomic target data in the CCC Data Base by element and explore its listed atomic records.

Barcode of Life Data Systems supports species identification through DNA barcodes and biodiversity records.

KonDATA is the University of Konstanz research data repository for publishing data with long-term visibility and citable records.

QUT's Research Data Finder helps users discover data collections, projects, people, software, and spatial research records.

CDMS provides reference data for molecular spectroscopy, with database records and guidance on their content and citation.

Hradec Králové's open data catalog covers municipal and company records, with datasets grouped into topics such as government, education, and transport.

EMAGE provides searchable gene and protein records with filters for specimens, annotations, data sources, assays, and anatomy terms.

The Canadian Tides and Water Levels Data Archive provides records of tides and water levels across Canada.