Author: doser
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FAIR Software for the Social Sciences
In this short article, we describe the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles for research software and provide practical recommendations for social scientists.
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Open Position: National Coordinator European Social Survey
In 2024, preparations for the twelfth measurement of the European Social Survey (ESS) will start in the Netherlands. The ESS is a leading survey that takes place every two years with the aim of identifying and explaining attitudes to social, cultural and political issues within Europe. ESS is an important source for innovative international comparative…
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New version of the ODISSEI Portal – More data to find and improved search
Written by the ODISSEI Portal Team We are happy to present a new version of the ODISSEI Portal. With a first prototype launched in September 2022, the 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…
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Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2023
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on computational social science to be given at its conference on 2 November 2023 in Utrecht. ODISSEI, the research infrastructure for social science in the Netherlands, connects researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry. This conference seeks…
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Collecting vocabularies in the social sciences: the Awesome Ontologies for the Social Sciences
The aim of the list is to offer a starter kit to anyone interested in (re)using semantic artefacts (i.e. ontologies, controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and taxonomies) in a social science context, and hopefully inspire them to share any additional resource they may deem useful with the rest of the community. In this short article, we explain…
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First Aid for Data Questions: How the SoDa team empowers interdisciplinary scientists with computational methods
Can machine learning and computational text analysis help us make sense of vast numbers of documents, such as development project evaluation files dating back to the 1970s? This is a question that Dr. Ruth Carlitz, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, seeks to answer in her research on how politics conditions…
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LISS panel Call information session
On 25 May, from 14:00-15:00, ODISSEI and Centerdata organize an online information event for the LISS panel Grant call that opens up this spring. During this session, Joris Mulder (Centerdata, Senior survey researcher and LISS panel Coordinator) will describe the LISS panel and the types of studies and methodological innovations that are possible in the…
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ODISSEI Grant Application Support information session
On 9 May, from 11:00-12:00, ODISSEI is organizing an information session on how the national infrastructure can support researchers in their upcoming ERC or NWO funding application. Facilities that ODISSEI and its partners offer, can help elevate grant proposals and offer a comparative advantage in the application process. During this session, dr. Kasia Karpinska, ODISSEI…
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Find, Use, Cite, Repeat: A short guide on how to cite microdata from Statistics Netherlands
The goal of this short article is to summarise the main principles of data citation, to apply these principles to the citation of Dutch administrative data via Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and finally to show how the ODISSEI Portal can aid in the process.
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ODISSEI eScience Grants Awarded
ODISSEI eScience Grants The Netherlands eScience Center announced the awarded grants after the call of 2022 on 24 January, 2023. Out of a total of 39 grants that are spread across study disciplines, five applications got awarded an ODISSEI eScience Grant, which is intended for social scientists who want to apply digital techniques in their…