re3data

is an Aggregator.

re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories) is a global registry of research data repositories from all academic disciplines, launched in 2012 and operated by DataCite. Each repository is described with a detailed metadata schema covering its subjects, content types, access and upload conditions, data licenses, persistent identifier systems, certification and responsible institutions, and receives a re3data identifier and DOI. Metadata are available through a web portal, a REST API returning XML and a daily bulk XML export, all released under CC0.

License

CC0 1.0

Homepage

re3data

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Product Summary

Products

From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
re3data.portal re3data Web Portal www.re3data.org Graphical Interface http Web portal for searching and browsing...
re3data.api re3data API doc Programming Interface http Versioned REST API (with a separate O...
re3data.export re3data Repositories XML Export re3data-repositories.zip (7.0 MB) Product xml Daily export of all online re3data re...
re3data.schema re3data Metadata Schema 4.0 XSD re3dataV4-0.xsd (156.6 KB) Data Model xml XML Schema (XSD) for version 4.0 of t...
re3data.schema-docs re3data Metadata Schema 4.0 Documentation re3.014 Documentation http Documentation of version 4.0 of the r...
re3data.api-docs re3data API Documentation doc Documentation http re3data API documentation describing ...
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Details

re3data

re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories) is a global, cross-disciplinary index of research data repositories. It started in 2012 as a German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project and is now a DataCite service. Each repository record gets a re3data identifier (such as r3d100000001) and a DOI, and is described using the re3data Metadata Schema, currently version 4.0.

Records cover a repository’s subjects, content and data types, access and upload conditions, data licenses, persistent identifier systems, certifications, APIs and responsible institutions. Version 4.0 of the schema added properties for related repositories and funding information.

Access

  • Web portal: search and browse at re3data.org.
  • API: an OpenSearch interface and a versioned REST API returning XML (for example https://www.re3data.org/api/v1/repositories).
  • Bulk export: a daily zip of all online repository records as XML, plus monthly archived snapshots, from the data download page.

Database metadata are released under CC0; other site content is under CC BY 4.0.

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Created: October 04, 2026 | Last modified: October 04, 2026