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The new Platform for Digital Infrastructure for SSH (PDI-SSH) invites submissions for the Call for Proposals Digital Infrastructure SSH. Initiatives for digital infrastructures that serve both the social sciences and the humanities are invited to submit their proposal. Resources can be requested for both strengthening or scaling up existing initiatives and launching new initiatives. The…

Over the past 5 years the Data4lifesciences programme has evolved into a highly-appreciated knowledge sharing platform for the Dutch UMCs for their research data infrastructure. The Dutch UMCs and many partner institutes now venture into a new phase with Health-RI, the national data infrastructure for health research. An excellent occasion to look back to the successes…

ODISSEI welcomes Utrecht University’s Faculty of Geosciences as its newest member organisation. Being a member organisation in ODISSEI offers several benefits. Employees of member organisations are entitled to several forms of compensation, like the discount and grants for Microdata and the LISS panel. Besides, they will be the first to be able to use the…

E-data & Research is a newsletter covering issues related to data and research in the social science and humanities. It appears three times a year and is free of charge. Both hardcopy and digital editions of E-data & Research are available. Organisations participating in ODISSEI can order large quantities of the newsletter to distribute in their organisations. Subscribe…

Ten researchers from the ODISSEI member organisations have been granted free data collection through the LISS panel. This panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,000 individuals from approximately 4,500 households. The panel is a representative sample of the Dutch population. In total, 39 proposals were submitted, a noteworthy increase in comparison to the 31…

Dr. Kasia Karpinska has recently joined the ODISSEI Coordination Team at Erasmus University. She coordinates the grant funding of ODISSEI, including the Microdata Access Discount, the Microdata Access Grant, and the LISS Grant. Kasia obtained her PhD from Utrecht School of Economics in 2013. She previously worked as a researcher at Erasmus School of Social…

The ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC) allows to analyse highly sensitive data, such as CBS Microdata, on the Cartesius supercomputer. The OSSC demonstrated its extraordinary possibilities in three pilot projects. It is currently being scaled up to a production environment. It is expected that it will open to the wider research community before the summer of…

ODISSEI is hiring a Community Manager who will maintain the relationship with (potential) users of the infrastructure. Community aanager will introduce ODISSEI’s services to researchers, graduate schools and data managers, and will organise community events. Setting up the educational program of ODISSEI will be another task of the Community Manager. The vacancy will be published…

On November 21, CBS organises a new Microdata afternoon. The Microdata User Afternoons are semi-annual meetings for researchers and policy makers. The purpose of these meetings is to share knowledge and experience and to explore the possibilities of using CBS Microdata. The theme of this meeting is Policy Evaluations. Internal and external speakers will give…

The organisation looks back to a successful first edition of the ODISSEI Community Conference. On this page you will find the presentations and photographs. Presentations Pearl Dykstra – Introducing ODISSEI Maarten van Ham – Effects of spatial contextual characteristics on personal income Eveline de Zeeuw – A genome-wide association study of health care costs Jan…