TARDIS is a multi-institutional collaboration that facilitates the archiving and sharing of data and metadata pertaining to crystallography. TARDIS offers a free data packaging tool for organising and annotating data, and for creating localised repositories.

While it does not store data, users can create and share datasets and files. TARDIS incorporates Synchrotron-TARDIS, a repository hosted at the Australian Synchrotron that provides macromolecular crystallography data, and MyTARDIS, an institutional repository for the storage of private, raw data. This data can be made public and harvested by Research Data Australia.

MyTARDIS is visualised to illustrate the research and metadata workflows within the repository.

This dataset on TARDIS is a great example of how open access data can be used to support publications. It was used and cited to support evidence in a journal article published in Nature.

TARDIS is led by Monash University, with an additional thirteen partners including The University of Queensland and the Australian National Data Service (ANDS).

TARDIS is continuing to develop and its progress is documented on Google Code.