AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
ADNeT MCI to AD Predictor

This application predict the risk of progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) for a new subject using demographic and biological features such as cognitive performance (e.g. MMSE score ≥27, indicating relatively preserved cognitive function despite MCI diagnosis), genetic risk factors (e.g. APOE4 positive status, which increases AD risk) and biomarker measurements (e.g. low Aβ value ≤44, suggesting lower levels of amyloid-beta protein)

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Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2011APRS_05

We propose to carry out the most ambitious and comprehensive all-sky survey for pulsars and transient sources to date. Using the 20cm multibeam and a new digital filterbank array this survey will create a petabyte digital record of the sky that can be data mined in the future and used to search for relativistic binary and millisecond pulsars, RRATs, and extragalactic radio bursts. The survey should discover 100s of new millisecond and normal pulsars and help define the lower limit to pulsar periods, test theories of relativistic gravity, find transients and provide pulsars for gravitational wave detection.

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OML-Combine: Online Machine Learning tool for Combining datasets

The online ML-combine application (OML-combine app)  is a machine learning (ML) data harmonization tool for aggregation of prospective data. The app allows researchers to utilize the ML-harmonization method for harmonization of their own data with that from other large available data bases. It has been tested on from neuropsychological tests of Alzheimer’s disease. 

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Values and vulnerability of the Murray-Darling Basin - Basin-wide rapid assessment: Datasets

This collection of geodatabases provides the data used in the tables and maps of the report "Values and vulnerability of the Murray-Darling Basin - Basin-wide rapid assessment" (http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/608436?index=1) available through the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (at https://www.mdba.gov.au/publications-and-data/publications/values-and-vulnerability-murray-darling-basin-basin-wide-rapid).

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Australian National Insect Collection - Euryglossinae Bee (Part 1)

Australia has over 1,500 species of native bees in Australia. Photos used in the Atlas of Living Australia's Volunteer Portal adds to our knowledge about the distribution and diversity of Australia's Euryglossinae bees. Helping us unlock information that has been hidden away at the Australian National Insect Collection, but now will be available worldwide through the Atlas of Living Australia. 

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The Hermetiinae soldier flies of Australia

The black soldier fly was unintentionally introduced to Australia in the middle of the 20th century, where it has since become established in every State and Territory. Specimen records of black soldier fly, held at the Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) have had associated information contained on labels, transcribed and geo-referenced in the Atlas of Living Australia's transcription platform, DigiVol. This data-set adds to our knowledge about the distribution and diversity of Australia’s black soldier fly, helping ANIC researchers determine exactly where the black soldier fly occurs in Australia and identify any overlap with the native species.  

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"The Insects of Australia" full-colour plates 1 to 8

This collection is comprised of high-resolution scans from the eight full-colour plates in the CSIRO publication "The Insects of Australia - a textbook for students and research workers, Volumes I and II, 2nd Edition".
Plate 1: Odonata (dragonflies)
Plate 2: Mantodea (mantids), Blattodea (cockroaches), Dermaptera (earwigs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids).
Plate 3: Hemiptera (bugs)
Plate 4: Coleoptera (beetles)
Plate 5: Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps).
Plate 6: Batesian Mimicry.
Plate 7: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
Plate 8: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
A ninth plate, depicting termite heads, has been included in this collection but was not published in the final volumes.

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Australian National Insect Collection Jewel Bulk Samples Collection

The Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) is recognized both nationally and internationally as a major research collection. It is the world's largest collection of Australian insects and related groups such as mites, spiders, nematodes and centipedes housing over 12 million specimens. 
Like many entomological collections, not all specimen material at ANIC is registered, sorted or identified to species level, and may sit in ‘bulk’ collections. Examples of bulk collections include malaise trap samples held in jars, taxonomically sorted specimens dried and kept in ‘jewel boxes’ or hundreds of vials of specimens sorted to ordinal level. By mobilising these bulk collection samples, event sampling location information is exposed and searchable. This allows users access to collection recourses, making more Australian collection material available for research and study. The key shared quality is that these bulk collections represent a potential goldmine for taxonomists and other researchers looking for sources of already-collected entomological material to study. We encourage researchers to explore the range of bulk collections we have made available here, and to contact us for further details including how to access any that are of particular interest.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types - Hymenoptera - Mutillidae (velvet ants)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all pinned Hymenoptera - Mutillidae primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 19,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types - Diptera - Dixidae (meniscus midges)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all Diptera - Dixidae primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 19,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types - Hymenoptera - Bees (Apoidea: Anthophila)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all pinned bee primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 22,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types - Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all pinned Mecoptera primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 22,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types -  Blattodea (cockroaches)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all pinned Blattodea primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 22,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) Primary Types - Hymenoptera - Pompilidae (spider wasps)

This dataset is the current total holdings of all pinned Hymenoptera - Pompilidae primary type specimens held at the Australian National Insect Collection.
ANIC is the World’s largest repository of Australian type specimens, currently holding about 22,000 primary types, which are the basis of every species description and the ultimate reference for species identification. Primary types are globally recognised as being the most valuable specimens of any collection, because they form the scientific basis of taxonomy, ensure stability of species names and are irreplaceable.
Digitising the irreplaceable primary type specimens will not only greatly benefit their curation and long-term safety but will also leverage biodiversity research outcomes of in-house and overseas researchers and facilitate reliable identification of native species and biosecurity threats.

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Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2011APRS_04

We propose to carry out the most ambitious and comprehensive all-sky survey for pulsars and transient sources to date. Using the 20cm multibeam and a new digital filterbank array this survey will create a petabyte digital record of the sky that can be data mined in the future and used to search for relativistic binary and millisecond pulsars, RRATs, and extragalactic radio bursts. The survey should discover 100s of new millisecond and normal pulsars and help define the lower limit to pulsar periods, test theories of relativistic gravity, find transients and provide pulsars for gravitational wave detection.

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GLAREs and SRRGs in First Year of the EMU Survey

This collection contains PDF files presenting the figures for three categories of radio sources identified in the first year of the EMU survey, as described in the paper Discovery of Odd Radio Circles and Other Peculiars in the First Year of the EMU Survey using Object Detection, published in PASA:
1) GLAREs.pdf – Displays Galaxies with Large-scale Ambient Radio Emission (GLAREs), corresponding to Table 2 of the paper.
2) SRRGs.pdf – Displays Starburst Radio Rings (SRRGs), corresponding to Table 6.
3) noHosts.pdf – Displays radio sources with no plausible host detected in available infrared or optical data, corresponding to Table 5.

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CSIRO NovaSAR-1 National Mosaic

The NovaSAR-1 Australia National Mosaic is an amalgamation of 349 NovaSAR-1 S-band radar images acquired between 2020 and 2023 in tri-polarisation mode (HH, VV, HV) from descending-pass orbits.  
For the false colour composite layers, HH is red, HV is green, and VV is blue. This means white and purple show built-up areas, green is vegetated areas, and black is water or flat surfaces such as runways etc. The difference in white or purple for built-up areas is due to the buildings' orientation to the flight path and/or line of sight.
N.B: CSIRO does not recommend the NovaSAR-1 Australia National Mosaic for detailed quantitative analysis, but rather as a qualitative reconnaissance product for exploring relative variations of S-band radar backscatter across large spatial areas in Australia.

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CSIRO NovaSAR-1 National Facility collections from 2019 - present

CSIRO NovaSAR-1 S-band SAR collections from July 2019 - present. 
NovaSAR-1 offers a variety of imaging modes including 6m resolution Stripmap mode, ScanSAR mode and 400km swath Maritime mode. 
HH, VV and HV polarisations are available. 
The data is primarily over Australia, though some images exist in other parts of the world.
Users are required to register on the datahub and in doing so, agree to the EULA, to search and download the NovaSAR-1 Data. 
Data is available in Level-1 (GRD, SLC, SRD and SCD) and CEOS-ARD formats.

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Parkes observations for project P1219 semester 2025APRS_03

Magnetic fields are fundamental in regulating star formation and the evolution of molecular clouds. Zeeman splitting offers a unique method to directly measure line-of-sight magnetic field strengths in interstellar environments, from the diffuse ISM to dense cores. Observations of HI and OH absorption toward pulsars provide an unprecedented opportunity to measure magnetic fields with high precision, benefiting from pulsars' small angular sizes and reliable Stokes V spectra unaffected by instrumental effects. Our recent tentative Zeeman splitting detections in OH absorption toward PSR J1644-4559 with Parkes reveal magnetic field strengths that suggest magnetically subcritical states, where magnetic pressure counteracts gravity. This challenges conventional theories of subcritical cold neutral medium (CNM) transitioning to supercritical star-forming molecular clouds, emphasizing the need for detailed investigation. We propose a continuation of Zeeman splitting studies through high-sensitivity OH and HI absorption observations of pulsars PSR J1644-4559, J1721-3532, and J1852+0031 using Parkes. By employing an innovative phase-resolved spectral technique and extending integration times, we aim to enhance Zeeman detection sensitivity and study magnetic field transitions in the CNM and quiescent molecular clouds. This work will refine our understanding of subcritical-to-supercritical transitions in star formation, establish pulsar absorption as a robust probe of interstellar magnetic fields, and advance observational techniques critical to star formation studies.

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Long-term project observations for project P1321 semester 2025APRS_04

The atomic interstellar medium shows tiny-scale optical depth fluctuations on the scale of 0.1~10,000 AU, whose origin and nature are poorly understood. The existence of this Tiny-Scale Atomic Structure (TSAS) has significant implications, potentially calling into question our fundamental understanding of heating, cooling and dynamical processes in the interstellar medium. Yet observations remain sparse. This long-term project plans to search for temporal variations in HI absorption spectra seen against background pulsars to characterise TSAS in the Milky Way interstellar medium (ISM). These observations constitute the largest number of sightlines and densest temporal sampling ever performed in a single experiment, and will test predictions that TSAS is the tail end of a turbulent cascade, constrain its minimum size scale (down to resolutions of ~0.05 AU) and potentially provide the first direct measurements of pressures in "large" TSAS features of &gt; 1000 AU. We make use of the phase-resolved spectral line mode that we have recently implemented on Parkes, which has cut data rates and processing times by factors of ~1000 compared to past studies. This is an expansion of our pilot P1321 to a long term study.

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Parkes observations for project P1336 semester 2024OCTS_06

This proposal aims to confirm the periodic radio pulsations of the polarised sources identified in the MeerKAT Bulge imaging survey. Discovering pulsars through blind single-dish radio surveys and traditional search methods can be impractical due to excess pulse smearing towards the Galactic center and the steep-spectrum nature of the pulsars. However, targeted searches on pulsar candidates discovered in imaging surveys based on their polarization properties are proving to be an extremely useful alternative. Given their potential visibility primarily at higher frequencies due to the less pronounced effect of scattering at these frequencies, the Ultra Wide Low Band (UWL) receiver of the Parkes Radio Telescope (Murriyang) is the most promising instrument to confirm their pulsar nature. We hence request Parkes/Murriyang UWL observations of these candidates to search for pulsations.

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Parkes observations for project P1338 semester 2025APRS_30

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts of extragalactic origin. Since the discovery of the first FRB in the archival Parkes/Murriyang multibeam data, a broad dichotomy in population has emerged. Some FRBs have been seen to be repeating, while others are not, despite a significant amount of follow-up using different radio telescopes. The repeating FRB 20240114A was recently discovered by CHIME/FRB, which has been seen to have an exceptionally high burst activity. Such extreme burst activity has not been seen in any other source. The repeating FRBs, such as FRB 20240114A, provide an unparalleled window into their circumburst environment due to their repeating nature, which can be used to constrain possible progenitor models and test underlying emission mechanisms. The previous Parkes/Murriyang source follow-up has also revealed intriguing spectro-polarimetric properties, such as frequency-dependent evolution of burst central frequency or chromaticity, a possible activity window, significantly large circular polarisation (CP), and frequency-dependent CP. These properties hold the key towards understanding the circumburst environment of the FRBs, and test possible progenitor models. A large bandwidth instrument with reliable polarimetry has been critical in uncovering these properties. The ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver on Parkes/Murriyang is ideally suited to explore the source's wideband spectro-temporal and polarimetric behaviour. We propose a campaign to regularly follow up FRB 20240114A to ascertain its long-term evolution of spectro-temporal properties.

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High-resolution (250 m) historical and projected (CMIP6) air temperature and precipitation grids for Bhutan

This collection provides air temperature and precipitation grids for historical (1986–2015) and projected future (CMIP6) climates of Bhutan with a spatial resolution of 250 m. The projections include four shared socio-economic pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5) (O'Neill et al., 2016; Riahi et al., 2017) and three periods (2021–2050, 2051–2080, and 2071–2100) using 10 global climate models (GCMs). These data can be used for many applications in environmental and agricultural science. 

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FAIRe-fier: FAIR eDNA metadata verifier

The FAIRe-fier is a metadata validation tool developed as part of the Environomics FSP, NCMI, CSIRO “Making eDNA FAIR” initiative, which aims to improve the reusability and interoperability of environmental DNA (eDNA) data through adherence to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.  
eDNA-derived data, such as DNA sequences and species occurrence records, are powerful resources for a range of applications, including biodiversity monitoring, biosecurity, and agricultural bio-surveillance. However, the full value of eDNA data is often hindered by inconsistent formats, limited accessibility, and incomplete metadata. While FAIR practices (Wilkinson et al., 2016.  
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18) are increasingly recognized within the eDNA community, widespread adoption remains limited. Data are frequently scattered across repositories and described using inadequate or inconsistent metadata standards. Existing frameworks like Darwin Core (DwC) and the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) lack critical terms needed to fully document eDNA workflows, from field sampling and laboratory processing to bioinformatic analysis. 
To address these challenges, we developed a comprehensive FAIR eDNA (FAIRe) metadata checklist and formatting guidelines by synthesizing elements from existing standards such as DwC and MIxS. These resources help eDNA practitioners structure their datasets according to FAIR principles. To support implementation, we also created a suite of tools and scripts—one of which is the FAIRe-fier. 
The FAIRe-fier is a user-friendly, web-based metadata validator that allows researchers to check the completeness and consistency of their metadata without needing scripting experience. After filling out the provided FAIRe metadata template, users can upload their data to the tool for automated validation. The tool checks various components, including whether mandatory terms are completed or, if not, whether a valid reason has been provided under the information_withheld term in the project metadata. It also verifies that controlled vocabulary entries and fixed-format terms, such as eventDate (which must follow ISO 8601 format), are correctly formatted. If any issues are found, users receive output with warning and error messages, indicating where corrections are needed. Formatted output will be produced when there is no warning message. 
All resources, including the metadata checklist, template, formatting tools, step-by-step guidelines, and supporting documentation, are freely available on the FAIRe website (https://fair-edna.github.io/index.html) and detailed in the peer-review manuscript: 
Takahashi et al. (2025). A metadata checklist and data formatting guidelines to make eDNA FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). Environmental DNA. 10.1002/edn3.70100. 

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