One language dies every two weeks, according to Dr Mark Turin of the World Oral Literature Project.

BCO-DMO - the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office - manages and serves oceanographic data and related documentation, and provides researchers and others with the tools and systems necessary to work with marine ecosystem data.

Freebase is an open Creative Commons licensed graph database. It is not a database of graphs, but rather, 'graph' refers to the structure of the database. Instead of using tables and keys as in traditional databases, Freebase defines its data structure as a set of nodes and links between nodes.

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.

New Zealand WWI Linked Open Data uses data sourced from NZ's Nominal Embarkation Rolls - a series of documents listing the details of those departing for service overseas - to help answer questions about the social impact of WWI on New Zealand society.

The Guardian has made all the data it has reported in the Data Blog available for download.

Are we interested in building the perfect data repository for our researchers …or in building one that might get used? It's a good question, and scientist Cameron Neylon has tried to answer it.

Antarctica is big and so is the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.