- See Also
 - 
    Related Guides
    
- Linguistic Data
 - Mathematical Data
 - Computation with Structured Datasets
 - Tabular Data Sources
 - Knowledge Representation & Access
 - Spatial Point Collections
 - Wolfram Resource System
 - Wolfram Data Repository
 - Spatial Point Processes
 - Cultural Data
 - Creating & Importing Images
 - Neural Network Construction & Properties
 - Creating & Importing Signals
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Speech Computation
 - Audio Representation
 
 - Workflows
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- See Also
 - 
      Related Guides
      
- Linguistic Data
 - Mathematical Data
 - Computation with Structured Datasets
 - Tabular Data Sources
 - Knowledge Representation & Access
 - Spatial Point Collections
 - Wolfram Resource System
 - Wolfram Data Repository
 - Spatial Point Processes
 - Cultural Data
 - Creating & Importing Images
 - Neural Network Construction & Properties
 - Creating & Importing Signals
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Speech Computation
 - Audio Representation
 
 - Workflows
 
 
ResourceData[resource]
gives the primary content of the specified resource.
ResourceData[resource,elem]
gives element elem of the content of the resource.
    
   ResourceData
Wolfram Data Repository »ResourceData[resource]
gives the primary content of the specified resource.
ResourceData[resource,elem]
gives element elem of the content of the resource.
Details and Options
   - A resource can be specified by name, UUID, or an explicit ResourceObject object.
 - Available content elements are given by ResourceObject[…]["ContentElements"].
 - Data in a resource is typically not explicitly retrieved until it is requested.
 - When data for a resource is retrieved, it is usually cached in $LocalBase.
 - ResourceData supports the following options:
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ResourceSystemBase $ResourceSystemBase resource system from which to retrieve data ResourceVersion Automatic version of the data to retrieve  - With the default ResourceVersion setting Automatic, ResourceData will retrieve locally cached data if available; otherwise, it will retrieve the latest data compatible with the local environment.
 
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (3)
Options (2)
ResourceVersion (1)
ResourceData supports ResourceVersion. Retrieve an old version of data:
See Also
ResourceObject ResourceSearch Get EntityValue
Function Repository: DataResourceFromDirectory
Related Guides
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 - Linguistic Data ▪
 - Mathematical Data ▪
 - Computation with Structured Datasets ▪
 - Tabular Data Sources ▪
 - Knowledge Representation & Access ▪
 - Spatial Point Collections ▪
 - Wolfram Resource System ▪
 - Wolfram Data Repository ▪
 - Spatial Point Processes ▪
 - Cultural Data ▪
 - Creating & Importing Images ▪
 - Neural Network Construction & Properties ▪
 - Creating & Importing Signals ▪
 - Natural Language Processing ▪
 - Speech Computation ▪
 - Audio Representation
 
Related Workflows
Related Links
Text
Wolfram Research (2016), ResourceData, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResourceData.html (updated 2021).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2016. "ResourceData." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResourceData.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2016). ResourceData. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResourceData.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_resourcedata, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ResourceData}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResourceData.html}", note=[Accessed: 04-November-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_resourcedata, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ResourceData}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ResourceData.html}, note=[Accessed: 04-November-2025]}