Please note that this list only shows a small selection of available resources.

GBIF spreadsheet templates
Metadata standard: Darwin Core
Description: biodiversity data; spreadsheet (.xlsx); download; free of charge;
templates for occurrence data, checklist data, sampling event data and resource metadata

GFBio spreadsheet templates
Metadata standard: Darwin Core
Description: biodiversity data, incl molecular data; spreadsheet (.txt, .xls, .xlsx); download; free of charge; by German data centers (BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK)

RightField
Metadata standards: divers
Description: ontologies; spreadsheets; local installation; open source; free of charge; for Windows, Linux, macOS; developed and maintained by the University of Manchester and HITS gGmbH;

Notepad++
Metadata standards: any, XML
Description: any data; simple text; local installation; open source; free of charge; for Windows; developed and maintained by Don Ho & user community

oXygen
Metadata standards: any, XML
Description: any data; simple text; local installation; proprietary; monthly pricing; for Windows, macOS, Linux, Eclipse; developed and maintained by SyncRO Soft SRL

ezEML
Metadata standard: EML
Description: ecological data; GUI; online platform; registration necessary; free of charge; developed and maintained by the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI); developed for data submissions to the EDI repository

CEDAR workbench
Metadata standards: divers, incl. ADVANCE project
Description: biological data (ADVANCE: biodiversity survey and monitoring data); GUI; online platform; registration necessary; free of charge

ISA framework
Metadata standards: ISA-TAB, ISA-JSON, ISA Python API
Description: life science, environmental and biomedical experiments; online plattform & local installation; registration necessary; open source; free of charge; for Windows, Linux, macOS

MIAPPE
Metadata standard: MIAPPE
Description: plant phenotyping experiments; templates & tools; online platform; registration necessary; open source; free of charge