Author: doser
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NWO Roadmap Grant for Digital Infrastructure Social Sciences and Humanities
The collaboration between ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) and CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) and fifteen national partners has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Large-scale Research Infrastructure Grant of €15.2 million. This new collaboration, Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud for the Netherlands…
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New prototype of the ODISSEI Portal – Improved interface and more data to find
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. We are proud to announce a new prototype version of the Portal which now includes metadata from social science datasets…
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ODISSEI Lunch Lecture: The robot or the brain? Building a classifier for visual news frames of Artificial Intelligence
On Tuesday 28 February between 12-13 hrs, Irina Lock (University of Amsterdam) will give an online Lunch Lecture on the framing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in online media images. In news media and online public discourse, digital technologies such as machine learning applications are often portrayed as magical “artificial intelligence” (AI). News articles often frame…
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FAIRsharing for the social sciences: What’s in it for me?
The aim of this blogpost is to describe the purpose and structure of FAIRsharing. We think this resource might be very useful for researchers when writing their Data Management Plan (DMP).
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CBS – ODISSEI Microdata Meeting – Energy Poverty in Figures
On 23 February, the next online Microdata Meeting will take place, with a presentation of Lydia Geijtenbeek (Statistics Netherlands) on ‘Energy Poverty in Figures’. With the increasing fossil fuel prices and the need to transform our energy systems, energy poverty has become an increasingly important topic. Households are energy poor when their energy bill is…
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SICSS-ODISSEI summer school open for applications
After its successful first run last summer, ODISSEI will host its second Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in the Netherlands from 19-30 June, 2023. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career researchers interested in computational social science. SICSS-ODISSEI is unique within the SICSS framework…
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Microdata Access Grant (MAG) Call 2023 Now Open
The Microdata Access Grant call of 2023 is now open. The MAG offers funding for six CBS microdata projects for researchers working at ODISSEI member organisations. Researchers who receive the grant will be able to execute a CBS microdata project of up to €7.500, which typically covers a six month project for two researchers with…
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SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School confirmed for June 2023
From 19 to 30 June, ODISSEI is hosting its second 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 hopes to bring together PhD students, post-docs and early career social…
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LISS Grants 2022 Announcement
The LISS panel Grant call offers financing of data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2022 round of the Call for Proposals we have received 39 applications. In this round both individual and consortium applications were considered. Consortium applications could be submitted on behalf of at least 3 different departments/ organisations and, preferably, 2…
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FAIR yes, but how? FAIR Implementation Profiles in the Social Sciences
The aim of this short article is to explain (1) what FIPs are, using examples that should be familiar to most social scientists; (2) the added values of FIPs for social scientists; and (3) the steps to make a FIP for your community.