Author: doser
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Seven projects awarded Microdata Access Grant (MAG) 2024
The Microdata Access Grant offers financing for research projects using CBS microdata. In the 2024 round of the Call for Proposals for the Microdata Access Grant, we received 19 applications. The reviewers in this round were: Govert Bijwaard (NIDI), Peter Lanjouw (VU), Deni Mazrekaj (UU), Kim Stienstra (EUI).
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How can I use this data? The importance of licences to facilitate reuse
When you are depositing data in a repository for long-term preservation and sharing, you will be asked to select a licence for your dataset. The process of licensing is an important enabler of the FAIR Principle [1] letter ‘R’: ‘Reusable’. This principle advises that data (and metadata) should be released with a clear and accessible…
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New version of the ODISSEI Portal – Find datasets and their access conditions
We are happy to present a new updated version of the ODISSEI Portal. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands. The Portal includes metadata from CBS, DANS,…
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ODISSEI Event: “The Future of Secure Data Sharing”
ODISSEI is hosting The Future of Secure Data Sharing event on the 5th of June, 2024, 09.00-13.30, focusing on legislative implications and innovation opportunities for research following the introduction of the European Data Governance Act and Data Act. These two acts are expected to significantly affect research and the event will explore how precisely the…
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Ontologies for the social sciences: what they are, and why we need them
The aim of this short article is to explore the possible uses of ontologies, as developed in philosophy first and in computer sciences later, and why they are relevant for the social sciences. After defining what an ontology is, we provide a very minimal yet practical example to illustrate the use of the tool. We…
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Unveiling SANE: Secure ANalysis Environment is now available for use
ODISSEI, in collaboration with SURF and CLARIAH, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new phase of SANE – Secure ANalysis Environment, a GDPR-compliant solution designed to provide a secure and controlled environment for researchers to analyse sensitive data. The secure environment is now available for use and awaits research projects requiring the usage…
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Call for SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2024 applications is open
From 17 to 28 June 2024, ODISSEI is hosting its third summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the Erasmus Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities (EGSH). With the summer school, ODISSEI aims to bring together PhD students, post-docs and early career…
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LISS panel Grants 2023 Announcement
The LISS panel Grant call offers financing for data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2023 round of the Call for Proposals we have received 34 applications. In total, 6 regular LISS panel Grants could be funded and two grants for a project that combined the LISS panel data collection with access to the…
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Discontinuation Of Microdata Access Discount from 2024
At ODISSEI, we are committed to continually enhancing access to microdata from CBS, and we strive to optimize our initiatives for the benefit of the research community. Today, we share important updates regarding our Microdata Access Discount (MAD) program, one of our flagship initiatives. Over the years, the MAD program has successfully supported numerous compelling…
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ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2023
The ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, ethics, and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research. ODISSEI, the research infrastructure for social science in the Netherlands, connects researchers with the necessary data, expertise, and…