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On 3 November, the ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2022 took place. The conference, which welcomed over 300 participants, was the perfect platform for anyone interested in computational social sciences to learn, share and network. The event took place in the Media Plaza of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Participants from the entire…

By the ODISSEI Portal Team On Tuesday 29th of november the FAIR Data Day will take place in Utrecht. The topic of the day will be “Reusing data to advance science”. In light of this topic, the ODISSEI portal team submitted a session on “Harmonising Access Procedures for Sensitive Data”.  During this session, we want…

The ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team offers SoDa traineeships for early career social scientists (i.e., PhD candidates, early career postdocs, pre-PhD researchers who have finished their studies). Successful SoDa trainees will spend between 3-8 months full-time working on a social science research project they propose. During this time, they are members of the SoDa…

ODISSEI is the Dutch national infrastructure for social sciences. With more than 40 member organisations, and an ever increasing number of users, ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry. To introduce ODISSEI to a wider public, a video highlighting…

On November 15 from 13.00 to 14.00 hours, dr. Corina Huisman (Statistics Netherlands, CBS) will present Woonbase, a new database made available by CBS. “Who lives where and with whom?” is a central question in research on the housing market. Together with the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Statistics Netherlands developed a database…

On 1 September, the National Open Science Festival took place at the VU Amsterdam. Hundreds of people involved in the development and implementation of Open Science research practices gathered to exchange ideas, knowledge and best practices. ODISSEI was represented in various parts of the programme, including presentations during multiple sessions, participation of our Scientific Director…

The aim of this short article is to provide definitions to understand their use in the context of annotating the metadata ingested into the ODISSEI Portal, a repository that combines metadata from a wide variety of research data sources into a single interface. Thanks to the annotations enabled by controlled vocabularies and related resources, the…

From 20 June to 1 July, the first SICSS-ODISSEI summer school successfully took place in Rotterdam. In the first week, the programme included lectures and interactive work sessions to familiarise about 20 participants with key issues and challenges in computational social sciences. In the second week, the participants executed a unique social science benchmarking challenge,…

On Thursday 13 October between 12-13 hrs, Mark Verhagen (University of Oxford) will give an online Lunch Lecture on his use of Dutch administrative data at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and machine learning to study the effects of decentralization of government tasks: ‘Using Causal Trees and Registry Data to Study the Equitability of Policy Interventions: The…