Open Data in Germany

The DeZIM Research Data Center describes datasets and requests information about researchers and their projects before granting access.

Baden-Württemberg’s LGL provides open geodata and geodata services, with information on how to access its data.

Germany's Statistics Portal provides regional statistics and tools such as an accident atlas and economic indicator displays.

Arnsberg's open data portal supports government transparency, participation, collaboration, and public access to municipal information.

The IWH Research Data Centre offers external researchers access to microdata and micro-aggregated datasets across economic topics.

PANGAEA archives, publishes, and distributes georeferenced data from Earth system research.

Aachen’s open data portal lets users search datasets published by the city.

The Research Data Center provides economic and social science data for non-commercial research and university teaching.

The MaRDI portal helps users discover, document, and share mathematical research data.

Leipzig’s open data portal provides datasets in mostly machine-readable and open formats, with search across datasets, organizations, and groups.

data.THM is Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences' research data repository for organized storage, metadata, and long-term archiving.

REPOSIT indexes researcher profiles, publications, theses, events, journals, organizations, funding, awards, patents, and datasets.

BAW-Datenrepository provides free access to water-engineering information from public institutions and organizations in Germany.

The Research Data Center Ruhr combines research data management and data services, with regional datasets using standardized area references.

LaMBDa is the research data portal of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, with datasets on topics including migration and politics.

The Senckenberg data catalog lets visitors search datasets and organizations, with statistics on collections and recent additions.

The IOW Data Portal links to services for searching oceanographic records, viewing research metadata, and discovering model data.

Mülheim an der Ruhr publishes administrative raw data for reuse in civic projects, education, and research.

RODARE publishes research datasets from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, including recent data with open access.

coastDat uses numerical models to reconstruct marine climate and ecosystem conditions over many decades, especially in data-poor regions.

Fordatis is Fraunhofer's research data repository, with recent publications including a dataset on wireless signal detection.

SILVA provides quality-checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data through datasets, search, and analysis tools.

LIfBi’s data and service portal covers its research data and services, with information on access requirements, variables, and documentation.

open.bydata is Bavaria's open data portal for free public datasets and support for sharing data.