ODISSEI
A genome-wide association study of health care costs
This case study looks at the underlying causes of differences in the amount of care that people need. Are increased healthcare costs a consequence of certain physical and psychological characteristics or of personal and cognitive characteristics? Or is there another explanation found in previous research?
Analysing social network of the Netherlands
CBS can only analyse on a small, regional scale using their own technological facilities. The ODISSEI Data Facility enables data analysis at the national level. This involves 16.9 million nodes, interconnected by 39 billion links.
Effects of spatial contextual characteristics on personal income
What is the relationship between your neighbourhood and your individual income? This research question will be answered in this pilot project.
21 June 2019
KNAW advocates national data officer
At the request of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the KNAW wrote the advisory report Hergebruik van publieke data. Meer wetenschap en beter overheidsbeleid (Reuse of public data. More science and better government policy). Yesterday, Pearl Dysktra, head of the committee and scientific director of ODISSEI, handed the report to the Ministry.
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18 June 2019
Roadmap proposal submitted
ODISSEI has submitted a proposal to the NWO Roadmap Large-scale scientific infrastructure.
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14 June 2019
New Call: Collect data in the LISS panel
After the success of the first call in 2018, this year ODISSEI repeats the call Collect data in the LISS panel. In this call researchers at one of the ODISSEI member organisations could apply for free data collection through the LISS panel.
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28 May 2019
ODISSEI in e-Data & Research
In the latest edition of e-Data & Research much attention is paid to ODISSEI.
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28 May 2019
New member organisations
ODISSEI welcomes CentERdata, Erasmus School of Health Policy Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), International Institute for Social History (IISH) and School of Business and Economics (VU University Amsterdam) as its newest participants.
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17 April 2019
21 may: NPSO lecture day
The Dutch Platform for Survey Research (NPSO) is organizing their second annual lecture day on 21 May. This years theme is ‘mobile device surveys and sensordata’.
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17 April 2019
New call for proposals eScience Center
The Netherlands eScience Center invites ‘Big Science’ researchers and ICT researchers to apply for funding to address innovative compute-intensive and/or data-driven research problems. Theretofore, the eScience Center introduces the call Innovative eScience Technologies for ‘Big Science’ (eTEC-BIG).
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14 March 2019
15 July: Network meeting at IC2S2
The 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Amsterdam from 17 to 20 July 2019. ODISSEI is a sponsor of IC2S2 and will be hosting a ‘scientific speed date’ during Warm-Up on 15 July.
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28 February 2019
Report Introductory meeting CBS Microdata
On Tuesday 19 February, an introductory meeting on the use of CBS Microdata was held at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) in The Hague. At the same meeting, the MAG call was launched to allow researchers free access to the CBS Microdata.
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20 February 2019
Role: National Coordinator European Social Survey
ODISSEI is looking for a national coordinator for the 10th measurement of the European Social Survey (ESS) in the Netherlands.
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6 February 2019
Call for SHARE User Workshop
On Thursday 16 May 2019, SHARE Netherlands, member of the ODISSEI network, organizes a user workshop together with SHARE Germany. This workshop will include scientific presentations and practical sessions on how to get more out of the SHARE data.
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23 January 2019
7 Mar: RUG presents ODISSEI
On Thursday 7 March 2019, ODISSEI participant University of Groningen organizes an introductory meeting to ODISSEI. During this afternoon four speakers will highlight different aspects of the network, its developments and the possibilities it offers for researcher.
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15 January 2019
19 Feb: Introduction meeting to CBS Microdata and launch of call
On Tuesday 19 February 2019, an introductory meeting on using CBS Microdata will be held, aimed at novice researchers. At the event, you will learn about available Microdata, the practical process of working with them and further requirements and costs.
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15 January 2019
New call for free access to CBS Microdata (MAG)
As from the pilot year 2019, the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) will annually provide five researchers working at an ODISSEI participant with free access to CBS Microdata. Novice researchers in particular are invited to submit their MAG proposals.
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12 December 2018
New participants: TU Delft en Nivel
ODISSEI gladly welcomes two new participants: Nivel (Netherlands institute for health services research) and the TU Delft faculty of Architecture, who will both join per 1 January 2019.
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11 December 2018
LISS-call closed
Thanks to a new call, researchers at one of the ODISSEI participants could apply for free data collection through the LISS panel. This panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,000 individuals from approximately 4,500 households.
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2 December 2018
Pearl Dykstra in Tokyo
On the 6-7th November 2018 in Tokyo, Japan, the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) hosted its 3rd biennial conference on International Science Advice to Government. During this event, ODISSEI’s scientific director Pearl Dykstra gave a presentation on ODISSEI.
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23 October 2018
Speech Pearl Dykstra on Open Access
Earlier this month, the Erasmus University Rotterdam held an event on Open Access – The Business of Scholarship. That afternoon, Pearl Dykstra, scientific director of ODISSEI, gave a keynote.
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19 September 2018
Call Collect data in the LISS panel
ODISSEI has opened a Call for Proposals for ODISSEI participants to be able to collect data using the LISS panel.
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15 March 2018
Continuation Microdata Regulation 2018
In the fourth quarter of 2017, as a pilot ODISSEI made a remuneration available to its participants that made use of CBS microdata during that quarter. ODISSEI participants received a discount of 50% on the costs for projects executed via CBS’s remote access facility.
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15 March 2018
ASDI call open
Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) invites researchers working in the domains of Environment & Sustainability and Humanities & Social Sciences to apply for funding and support to address compute-intensive and/or data-driven problems within their research.
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16 October 2017
Pearl Dykstra’s session on Synergy Conference
With pleasure the Board of the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) invites researchers and others interested for its first Synergy Conference: ‘Creating common ground for the social sciences and humanities’ on 16 November 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. One of the parallel sessions will be given by ODISSEI chairman Pearl Dysktra.
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14 June 2017
Thousandth participant for YOUth
The YOUth study recently welcomed the thousandth participant in the KinderkennisCentrum of Utrecht University. YOUth explores how children grow up and how various factors influence the development of the young brain.
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27 October 2016
Festive launch ODISSEI, data platform for the social sciences
During a festive meeting at the Central Museum in Utrecht last Thursday, ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovation) was launched. Together with Pieter Hooimeijer (NWO-MaGW) and Huib van de Stadt (CBS), scientific leader Pearl Dykstra (EUR) performed the symbolic opening act by announcing the new name.
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A KNAW-committee led by #ODISSEI’s @DykstraPearl presented an advisory report on the reuse of public data yesterday. (@_knaw)
https://t.co/dMdKptO4Yt
New #ODISSEI call: Collect data in the LISS panel (@centerdata). Submit your proposal before 16 September 2019!
https://t.co/7pmYejuKOo
