ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) is the national research infrastructure for the social sciences in the Netherlands. ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry.
Through ODISSEI, researchers have access to large-scale, longitudinal data collections as well as innovative and diverse new forms of data. These can be linked to administrative data at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Combining data from a wide range of sources enables researchers to answer new, exciting, interdisciplinary research questions and to investigate existing questions in novel, new ways.
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18 September 2023
The ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, ethics and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research.
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26 April 2023
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on computational social science to be given at its conference on 2 November 2023 in Utrecht.
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14 October 2022
ODISSEI is the Dutch national infrastructure for social sciences. To introduce ODISSEI to a wider public, a video highlighting ODISSEI's mission and vision, made by Sensu, is now available online. You can watch it here.
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29 April 2022
ODISSEI and the Netherlands eScience Center work together to provide researchers with in-kind support to execute their innovative social science research projects. They do this through the annual award of ODISSEI eScience Grants. The second Call for proposal is currently open
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15 December 2021
On 18 November, the ODISSEI Community Conference took place. The photo's and livestream are now online.
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13 October 2021
The programme of the ODISSEI Community Conference is available online here, including sessions on innovating Computational Social Science research projects, Open Science with Secure Data, and Linkage of Large Datasets in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The link to the live stream can also be found here.
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6 May 2021
The ODISSEI - eScience Call 2021 supports social scientists who want to use digital techniques in their research and need help with this.
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18 February 2021
The 2021 round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call opens today. The MAG offers researchers free access to CBS microdata.
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29 April 2020
ODISSEI is one of the seven large scientific infrastructures to receive a NWO financing from the national Roadmap for Large-scale Research Infrastructures. The investment will be used to accelerate development of computational social science in the Netherlands over the next five years.
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22 September 2023
Van Ricarda Braukmann – Data Station Manger Social Sciences en DANS. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) is the national centre for expertise and repository for research data. For more…
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8 September 2023
On Tuesday 26 September between 14-15 hrs, Germans Savcisens, Ph.D. fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (Section for Cognitive Systems), will give an online lecture on Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives. We present a life2vec model that uses this similarity to adapt innovations from natural language processing to examine the evolution and predictability of human lives based on day-to-day event sequences.
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7 September 2023
The ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team offers SoDa fellowships for early career social scientists. Applicants can submit proposals for projects in the social sciences for which a data science or data-related problem needs to be solved.
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1 September 2023
In the 2023 round of the ODISSEI-CBS Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call, six projects were awarded.
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25 June 2023
SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is looking for a Country Team Lead. Read more about the position and the application procedure here.
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21 June 2023
We are happy to announce a new prototype version of the ODISSEI Portal. The Portal now allows you to search for CBS metadata records available in Dutch by using English search terms. The Portal also includes metadata from HSN, the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. Around 7,500 datasets are now findable through the Portal.
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19 June 2023
In May 2023, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa) hosted a workshop on causal impact assessment. The workshop materials are now available online. Read more here.
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9 June 2023
Research software is widely used by researchers from all fields. Research software represents the set of operations and instructions to shape raw data to analytical and computational purposes. In this blog post, we describe how the FAIR principles apply to research software and point to useful resources.
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24 May 2023
The European Social Survey (ESS) is looking for a national coordinator. Lees hier meer over de positie en de sollicitatieprocedure.
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25 April 2023
This an introduction to the first curated list of ontologies and vocabularies for the social sciences, published in the form of an open collaborative project on GitHub. The list offers a starter kit to anyone interested in (re-)using vocabularies in a social science context.
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24 April 2023
The ODISSEI SoDa team helps researchers develop tools for their research. Political Scientist Ruth Carlitz approached them to discuss how computational methods such as machine learning and large-scale text analysis could help her extract information from foreign aid project evaluations.
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24 April 2023
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.
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24 April 2023
On 9 May, from 12:00-13:00, ODISSEI is organizing an information session on how the national infrastructure can support researchers in their upcoming ERC or NWO funding application.
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23 March 2023
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. Click here to read the guidelines.
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17 March 2023
Written by Emilio Cammarata (ODISSEI FAIR Support team) and Angelica Maineri (ODISSEI FAIR Support team & FAIR Expertise Hub). Bricks for the construction of knowledge: recognizing value of the data…
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27 February 2023
The ODISSEI eScience Grants have been announced. Read more about them here.
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20 February 2023
The collaboration between ODISSEI and CLARIAH and fifteen national partners has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Large-scale Research Infrastructure Grant of €15.2 million.
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13 February 2023
We are proud to announce a new prototype version of the ODISSEI Portal which now includes metadata from social science datasets published by Dutch research institutes through DataverseNL. Improvements include: more reliable data citations, improved ingestion pipeline, and provenance information.
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8 February 2023
On Tuesday 6 December between 12-13 hrs, dr. Irina Lock (University of Amsterdam) will give an online Lunch Lecture on the framing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in online media images. We warmly invite you to attend this lecture, learn more about the framing of images related to Artificial Intelligence and how computational methods can be used to detect and classify frames in images.
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6 February 2023
FAIRsharing works to make FAIR resources (developed by the research community) available to researchers and research data practitioners from a single interface. The aim of this blogpost is to describe the purpose and structure of FAIRsharing. We think this resource might be very useful for social scientists, for instance when writing their Data Management Plan (DMP).
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1 February 2023
On 23 February, the next online Microdata Meeting will take place, with a presentation of Lydia Geijtenbeek (Statistics Netherlands) on ‘Energy Poverty in Figures’. Statistics Netherlands has created a file that describes energy poverty in the Netherlands through 4 different indicators. During her presentation, Geijtenbeek will show how these data have been constructed, how they can be used for social research, and how the already available data can be used to estimate the current levels of energy poverty.
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20 January 2023
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. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists and data scientists.
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22 December 2022
From 19 to 30 June, ODISSEI is hosting its second summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. ODISSEI hopes to bring together PhD students, post-docs and early career social scientists and data scientists interested in computational social science using ODISSEI.
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19 December 2022
ODISSEI has granted LISS panel grants to five research projects. Read more about each project in this article.
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14 December 2022
A FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) is a collection of resources, services, and technologies adopted by a community to implement the FAIR principles. This short article describes what FIPs are, why they should be used, and how a FIP can be initiated.
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5 December 2022
The ODISSEI SoDa team helps researchers develop tools for their research. Social psychologist Eftychia Stamkou approached them to discuss if and how it would be possible to develop a model that can distinguish conformist and non-conformist gender expressions in art.
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28 November 2022
On December 15, 12.00-13.00 ODISSEI is organizing an information session on how the national infrastructure can support researchers in their upcoming ERC or NWO funding application. During this session, dr. Kasia Karpinska, ODISSEI Scientific Manager, will sketch the opportunities present at ODISSEI and will answer the questions of the potential applicants.
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25 November 2022
On 3 November, the ODISSEI Conference 2022 took place. Read a report, take a look at the photos and the recorded sessions here.
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10 November 2022
Persistent Identifiers or PIDs allow us to uniquely identify digital research resources like publications and datasets, ensuring the resources remain accessible over time. This blog post takes you through the concept of PIDs, and how PIDs help make our research FAIR. The post also explains the different kinds of PIDs that currently exist for publications, datasets, people, organisations and grants.
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27 October 2022
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 will present a session on “Harmonising Access Procedures for Sensitive Data”.
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22 October 2022
The ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team offers SoDa traineeships for early career social scientists. Applicants can submit proposals for projects in the social sciences for which a data science or data-related problem needs to be solved.
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13 October 2022
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 in which data from different sources are combined: the Woonbase.
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12 October 2022
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.
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3 October 2022
Resources like controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and thesauri are essential to achieve interoperability. The aim of this short article is to provide definitions of the terms, in order to understand their use in the context of annotating the metadata behind the ODISSEI Portal.
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15 September 2022
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.
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15 September 2022
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.
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12 September 2022
The ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, ethics and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research.
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2 September 2022
During the Dutch national Open Science Festival, ODISSEI launched the first version of the ODISSEI Portal. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface.
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1 September 2022
The deadline for the ODISSEI eScience Grant has been extended, and additional funding for RSE time has been made available at the Netherlands eScience Center.
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1 September 2022
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for a selection of projects of researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2022 round of the MAG call, seven projects were awarded. Read more about the projects here.
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17 June 2022
With the increasing popularity of open science practices, it is now more and more common to openly share data processing and analysis code along with more traditional scientific objects such as papers. There are many benefits to doing so: it makes your work more easily verifiable, reproducible, and reusable. But what are the best ways to create an understandable, openly accessible, findable, citable, and stable archive of your code? In this post, we look at what you need to do…
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17 June 2022
Are you interested in the needs of data stewards supporting researchers working with (quantitative) social sciences? Check out the report "Assessing FAIR Data Support Needs Amongst Data Supporters in the ODISSEI Community", openly accessibile on Zenodo.
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17 June 2022
The ODISSEI Community on Zenodo is now live! We encourage you to add your ODISSEI-related outputs to the collection.
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18 May 2022
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 3 November 2022 in Utrecht.
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2 May 2022
In Sociologie Magazine, Rense Corten (Utrecht University) writes about the future of empirical sociology, including the role that research infrastructures such as ODISSEI play.
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2 May 2022
In the LISS Call 2022, researchers affiliated with one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel and for funding for a project that expands the LISS panel data with CBS microdata.
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2 May 2022
The 2022 round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call is now open. The MAG offers financing of research projects using CBS microdata.
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29 April 2022
It is increasingly common for researchers to rely on the use of data sets that were not originally intended for research purposes. These data sets often lack appropriate documentation and information about how they were created and are often less reliable. The project ‘Building a FAIR Expertise Hub for the social sciences’, which was recently awarded funding by the Platform Digitale Infrastructuur Social Science and Humanities (PDI-SSH), is aimed at targeting this issue by supporting the data providers in the…
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28 April 2022
From April to June 2022 the SURF Open Innovation Lab is organizing "XR on Tour", in which they will visit various events and institutions. The goal of the tour is to inspire and find potential new use(r)s of different forms of XR, to strengthen connections with existing XR hubs and local communities, and in general to promote XR as a technology that can be beneficial to research and education in The Netherlands.
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15 April 2022
On Monday 16 May, from 14-15 hrs (CET), Erik-Jan van Kesteren (UU) will present on the ways in which you can deal with the computational limits of the Remote Access environment.
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23 March 2022
Dr. Minet de Wied, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Utrecht University, understands the challenges of developing research methods and experiments like no other. In her research on empathy in children with behavioural disorders, she uses a multi-method approach and develops a tool to aid in the assessment of empathy in clinical forensic practices.
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18 March 2022
On 21 April from 12.00 to 13.00 hours, dr. Verena Seibel (Utrecht University) will give a lunch lecture on Knowledge barriers and childcare usage among Dutch parents.
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8 March 2022
On Tuesday 19 April, from 15.00 to 16.00 hours, Jan Mol will present on the second CBS Microdata Meeting. During this event, Mol will talk about a Statistics Netherlands (CBS) project to calculate socioeconomic status (SES) scores for districts and neighbourhoods in all municipalities in the Netherlands
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2 March 2022
On Tuesday 8 March, from 12.00 to 13.00 hours, dr. Jan van der Laan and dr. Tom Emery will give a lecture on CBS Microdata. During the first CBS-ODISSEI Microdata Meeting researchers can learn more about working with the ‘A Persons Network (PN)’ microdata file, a data file describing the networks of the whole Dutch population.
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1 March 2022
The new E-data has been published in February. Read in issue about the unveiling of SURF's new supercomputer, about multigenerational research on the population of Suriname, and more about data in research in the social sciences and humanities.
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16 February 2022
ODISSEI aims to support social scientists in a variety of ways. Read about the ways in which Scientific Manager Kasia Karpinska tries to bridge the gap between the infrastructure and its users.
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15 February 2022
On 22 March from 12.00 to 13.00 hours, dr. Marco Stam (Leiden University) will give a Lunch Lecture about Research Data Acquisition on the Intersection between Economics and Criminology.
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11 February 2022
Together with SURF and CLARIAH, ODISSEI is working on the creation of a secure analysis environment, a virtual container in which the researcher can analyse sensitive data, while the data owner retains full control.
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8 February 2022
On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00, ODISSEI is organising a Microdata Access Grant Launch Event, where you can also find out more about using CBS Microdata.
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7 February 2022
Join the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team for their monthly Data Drop-in, where you can ask all your data-related questions that may come up in research projects.
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25 January 2022
ODISSEI wants to support researchers to conduct cutting edge research. Those who are preparing a grant application, are welcome to get in touch to discuss how ODISSEI can help to further elevate your proposal.
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24 January 2022
On 17 February from 12.00 to 13.00 hours, prof. dr. Tom van der Meer will give a Lunch Lecture about the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO).
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20 January 2022
ODISSEI is looking for a Project Manager Officer to be part of the ODISSEI Coordination Team.
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18 January 2022
From June 20 to July 1, 2022, ODISSEI will host a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in the Netherlands. SICSS-ODISSEI is open for applications now.
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15 December 2021
On 18 November, the ODISSEI Community Conference took place. The photo's and livestream are now online.
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9 December 2021
Thijs Lindner (EUR) had a new research idea of which he wanted to explore the feasibility. To find out how realistic his plans were, he approached the ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) Team.
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30 November 2021
The results of the LISS Grant 2021 are in. Proposals from nine researchers at ODISSEI member organisations were awarded the grant.
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4 November 2021
In October, the new edition of E-data & Research has been published. This edition features an interview with scientific director Pearl Dykstra regarding ODISSEI's five-year anniversary
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3 November 2021
ODISSEI and the Netherlands eScience Center work together to provide researchers with in-kind support to execute their innovative social science research projects. They do this through the annual award of…
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29 October 2021
On Thursday 9 December from 12:00 to 13:00, dr. Eelke Heemskerk will give a lecture on POPNET: Population Scale Social Network Analysis.
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28 October 2021
From Friday evening 26 November to Sunday afternoon 28 November, ASReview will organise a Hackaton for Follow the Money (FTM). The Hackaton for Follow The Money will revolve around the communication between multinational oil and gas company Shell and the Dutch government.
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28 October 2021
On Tuesday 26 October, dr. Paulina Pankowska (VU Amsterdam) presents her research on the use of hidden Markov models to produce consistent statistics with inconsistent sources.
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9 September 2021
On the 8th of September, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, received the new National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure. This Roadmap presents the proposals of…
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9 September 2021
On Thursday 23 September from 12:00 to 13:00, the first ODISSEI Lunch Lecture of this academic year will take place online. Dr. Tom Emery (ODISSEI and Erasmus University Rotterdam) will…
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6 August 2021
In June, DANS, CESSDA-ERIC and ODISSEI hosted a workshop for social scientists on Research Data Management (RDM) and responsible Open Science. The slides and the recordings of the presentations are now published online
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8 July 2021
ODISSEI is pleased to invite you to the ODISSEI Community Conference 2021. The conference will take place in Utrecht (exact location to be announced) on Thursday, 18 November from 12:00 to 18:00 hours.
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1 July 2021
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for a selection of projects of researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2021 round of the MAG call, six projects were awarded. Read more about the projects here.
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30 June 2021
Read the new E-data with an interview with Annette Scherpenzeel and Ruurd Schoonhoven on CBS microdata, and an article on the ODISSEI project Distributed Analytics Techniques.
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17 June 2021
Those who wish to know more about applying for an ODISSEI eScience grant, can now watch the recordings of the presentations on the information event. It is also encouraged to book a free consultation hour with the eScience Center and the SoDa Team.
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9 June 2021
The new ODISSEI newsletter has been published. Read about ODISSEI job openings, calls, new team members and more.
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8 June 2021
ODISSEI is looking for a Data Manager for its Coordination Team. ODISSEI's Social Data Science (SoDa) Team is seeking an Assistant Professor Social Data Science.
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7 June 2021
In the next months, several new employees will start at ODISSEI tasks. The Portal Team, the NTR team, and the Benchmarking team are all welcoming new members.
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10 May 2021
The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Read about the NLeSC call, the LISS call, and more.
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7 May 2021
In the LISS Call 2021, researchers working at one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel and for funding for a project that expands the LISS panel data with CBS microdata.
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6 May 2021
What can we learn about Dutch residential planning policy from past experience? In cooperation with Utrecht University, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is researching the long-term effects of the VINEX policy.
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3 May 2021
In June, ODISSEI, CESSDA-ERIC and DANS organise a workshop on research data management for starting researchers in the social sciences.
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28 April 2021
The Platform Digital Infrastructure for Social Sciences & Humanities (PDI-SSH) launched its 2021 Call for Digital Infrastructure, for project that serve both the social sciences and the humanities.
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12 April 2021
On 20 May, from 13:00 to 15:00, ODISSEI and CentERdata are organising an information event during which researchers can learn more about working with the LISS panel. During this afternoon, a variety of speakers will introduce the LISS panel and the research opportunities the panel offers. Two researchers will present their LISS research project, which were funded by the ODISSEI LISS grant.
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12 April 2021
This conference aims to bring SHARE users from multiple disciplines together to discuss ongoing research projects from across the Netherlands.
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8 April 2021
On Tuesday, 18 May, Chang Sun (Maastricht University) will present her project 'Knowledge Graph for metadata of CBS Microdata'. We warmly invite you to attend this lecture, learn more about parsing CBS metadata, and participate in the Q&A and discussion after the lecture.
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8 April 2021
On Thursday, 29 April, prof. dr. Aat Liefbroer (NIDI) and Tim Hanson (City University London) will present the European Social Survey (ESS) and the methodological and technical challenges it currently faces, both internationally and in the Netherlands. We warmly invite you to attend this lecture, learn more about the European Social Survey, and participate in the Q&A and discussion after the lecture.
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5 April 2021
On April 22, ODISSEI hosts an online workshop on CBS microdata and geospatial analysis, organised in collaboration with dr. Marco Helbich and dr. Hannah Roberts (UU). During this afternoon, attendees will learn more about the possibilities of CBS microdata for geospatial analysis.
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25 March 2021
In the beginning of 2021, ODISSEI and ASReview have started a collaboration to support researchers who wish to use this new digital tool for conducting systematic literature reviews at a…
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18 March 2021
The Netherlands eScience Center opens two new calls for proposals: the Open eScience call and the Collaboration in Innovative Technologies call. The Open eScience call offers researchers in-kind investment consisting…
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10 March 2021
The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Find it here and subscribe if you want to receive it in your inbox from now on.
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8 March 2021
Recent research by dr. Hannah Roberts shows that exposure to a green environment is associated with a reduction of depressive symptoms. To come to this conclusion, Roberts has made use of CBS microdata, which she has combined with a survey and GPS data collection.
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8 March 2021
On 30 March from 12-13 pm (CET), prof. dr. Rens van de Schoot, professor of statistics at Utrecht University, will present on the open-source tool ASReview, that can help researchers find relevant literature at a much faster pace and increase the quality of their screening process.
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4 March 2021
In the past few months, several new team members have started at Maastricht University, Utrecht University, and VU Amsterdam. The Portal task, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa), and the Distributed Analytics Techniques task are all welcoming new members.
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2 March 2021
Read announcements from our partners: SHARE Covid-19 research data available, Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek (NKO) 2021, and SURF Support4Research newsletter.
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26 February 2021
ODISSEI Management Board member Ruurd Schoonhoven (Senior Account Manager, Statistics Netherlands (CBS)) is retiring and will leave ODISSEI after years of exceptional and active involvement. Ruurd stood out because of his dedication to ODISSEI and his diligent and considerate attitude.
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24 February 2021
In February, the new E-data website was launched (in Dutch). Now that the new website is in place, E-data articles can be found and shared as indiviudual items.
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23 February 2021
This month, SURF has announced that a new supercomputer will be built. In the future, the OSSC will be transferred to the new supercomputer, to enable social scientists to make use of the enormous amount of extra computing power it offers.
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15 February 2021
The department of Methods and Statistics at Utrecht University offers a variety of courses during the Utrecht Summer School 2021 that may be of interest to the ODISSEI community. Registration is now open for most courses.
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8 February 2021
On Tuesday 9 February 2021 from 12-1 pm, the first ODISSEI Lunch Lecture will take place digitally. Dr. Hannah Roberts (UU) will discuss her recent research on associations between multiple environmental exposures and depressive symptoms in the Netherlands. For this research, Roberts has combined survey data with CBS microdata and GPS data.
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3 February 2021
SURF is organising the national conference around research and ICT: the SURF research week. The 3-day online programme will take place on the afternoons of 13, 14 and 15 April. During sessions on data processing, research support, open science and much more, attendees will learn about the latest ICT services that can accelerate research. The programme also offers room to meet with researchers or connect with SURF partners.
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26 January 2021
On 1 February, the Netherlands eScience Center opens a call for machine learning projects: Open Call for Small-Scale Initiatives in Machine Learning.
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11 January 2021
Mara Yerkes (Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University) received the ODISSEI LISS Corona grant in the spring of 2020 together with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from three Dutch universities. The grant gave Yerkes and her team free access to the LISS panel to examine gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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17 December 2020
The results of the LISS-call 2020 are in. Proposals from nine researchers at ODISSEI member organisations were awarded the grant. Via the grant, the researchers will get access to free panel time. The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, gives researchers access to survey data from about 7,000 respondents from approximately 4,500 households.
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29 November 2020
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2020 round of the MAG, eight projects were awarded, three more than in previous years.
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26 November 2020
On 3 December at 14.00 CET CESSDA is organising a webinar on the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide, where a researcher, a trainer and an expert will be on hand to discuss why and how to use the guide for Research Data Management in the social sciences and beyond.
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23 November 2020
The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Read about: the Community Conference of 24 November, the latest on the OSSC, ODISSEI Roadshow possibilities, the KansenKaart.nl and Microdata Access Discount, the new E-data
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9 November 2020
A new interactive website developed by economist Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics) and his research team shows stark differences in economic opportunities depending on the area in the Netherlands where people spend their childhood.
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6 November 2020
On November 12th, CBS is organizing a microdata webinar, with the theme ‘inequality.’ This event offers scientists the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience about working with CBS microdata.
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30 October 2020
In October, the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC) was officially launched. After the execution of many tests and security checks, the OSSC is now ready for use.
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21 October 2020
On 29 October 2020, the Dutch Platform for Survey Research (NPSO) organizes a seminar about the GDPR and ethics in survey research. The new privacy law has influenced the way survey research has to be conducted.
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15 October 2020
On September 15 Ana Petrović (TU Delft) successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Multiscale spatial contexts and neighbourhood effects’. She received her PhD Cum Laude.
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13 October 2020
The new issue of E-Data & Research is out, including articles about the consequences of COVID-19 for SSH research and an interview with Claes de Vreese about the Platform Digital Infrastructure SSH.
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13 October 2020
This month, two calls opened specifically for young researchers. The Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek (NKO) offers free space for the addition of questions to the panel and the Netherlands eScience Center offers…
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9 October 2020
In September three new ODISSEI employees have started at our partner organisations. Both the ODISSEI Social Data Analytics Team (OSDAT) at Utrecht University as well as the Portal Team at…
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8 October 2020
On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 24, the ODISSEI Community Conference will take place virtually. In June, ODISSEI received Roadmap funding from NWO with which the project has officially started. At…
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29 September 2020
The Management Board oversees the execution of ODISSEI and represents the ODISSEI member organisations. With the start of the Roadmap-project, four new members have joined the board.
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18 September 2020
On 1 September 2020, ODISSEI welcomed two Community Managers: Suze Zijlstra and Eva Heitbrink. They are responsible for maintaining contacts with (potential) ODISSEI users.
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12 August 2020
On September 3, DANS and LCRDM organize “Food for Psychologists”, an online event especially for researchers in psychology, with tools, tips and tricks in the field of Research Data Management…
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13 July 2020
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2020 round of the MAG, eight projects were awarded, three…
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22 June 2020
Read the new E-data & Research.
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16 June 2020
In the LISS call, researchers at one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel.
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16 June 2020
As part of the development of the ODISSEI Portal, DANS is hiring a software engineer/integrator. Together with the project partners at VU and SURF, you will work on deploying a…
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5 June 2020
As of 1 July 2020, ODISSEI welcomes six new member organisations.
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3 June 2020
What are the consequences of the corona crisis? How do Dutch patients feel about artificial intelligence? E-data research&data wrote an article on 12 current data collections in the LISS panel that ODISSEI recently honoured.
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8 April 2020
ODISSEI has allocated free time on the LISS panel for corona-related research into home education and the distribution of care tasks.
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31 March 2020
All over the world people are joining forces in the hope of quickly developing a vaccine for the corona virus and a cure for COVID-19. SURF is contributing to this by giving researchers accelerated access to high-quality computing facilities and data services. We also support numerous other research initiatives.
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30 March 2020
The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) provides researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation with free access to CBS Microdata. The 2020 round was launched.
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13 March 2020
ODISSEI is launching an extra call for free data collection in the LISS panel, specifically aimed at questions associated with the corona virus.
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17 February 2020
Statistics Netherlands organises a meeting for researchers who (wish to) make use of CBS microdata.
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12 February 2020
Platform for Digital Infrastructure for SSH (PDI-SSH) invites submissions for the Call for Proposals Digital Infrastructure SSH.
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7 February 2020
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…
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3 February 2020
ODISSEI verwelkom Utrecht Universiteit Faculteit der Geowetenschappen als een nieuwe deelnemer.
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23 December 2019
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…
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19 December 2019
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…
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18 December 2019
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…
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12 December 2019
The ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC) allows to analyse highly sensitive data, such as CBS Microdata, on the Cartesius supercomputer. You can now put your project on the interest list.
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11 December 2019
ODISSEI is currently hiring Community Manager who will maintain the relationship with (potential) users of the infrastructure. Community Manager 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 soon.
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7 November 2019
On November 21, CBS organises a Microdata afternoon on policy evaluation.
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6 November 2019
The organisation looks back to a sucessful first edition of the ODISSEI Community Conference. View the presentations and photographs here.
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5 November 2019
As of 2020, ODISSEI will become stakeholder of eData & Research. This newsletter on data and research in the social sciences and humanities is delivered three times a year to all researchers in these fields for free.
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9 October 2019
ODISSEI will host a session during the 6th National eScience Symposium on 21 November in Amsterdam.
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3 September 2019
ODISSEI will be organising a conference for its community on Tuesday 22 October. Grasp this opportunity to learn about the possibilities of ODISSEI, broaden your network and learn from each other. Register now!
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21 June 2019
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
ODISSEI has submitted a proposal to the NWO Roadmap Large-scale scientific infrastructure.
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14 June 2019
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 welcomes CentERdata, Erasmus School of Health Policy Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and School of Business and Economics (VU University Amsterdam) as its newest participants.
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28 May 2019
In the latest edition of e-Data & Research much attention is paid to ODISSEI.
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27 May 2019
In the ODISSEI LISS call 2018, nine projects were awarded free time in the LISS panel: Seger Breugelmans, Tilburg University Henk van der Kolk, Twente University Tim Wildschut, Utrecht University…
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17 April 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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3 December 2018
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) published a blog on the ODISSEI Data Facility (ODF). In this blog the institute introduces ODISSEI and explains their role in the development of the data infrastructure for the social sciences.
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2 December 2018
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
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
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
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
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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26 October 2017
Thursday 26 October, the workshop Linkage of Data was held in Utrecht, organized by ODISSEI and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). During this workshop over sixty participants shared their experiences on the topic of data linkage.
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16 October 2017
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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11 September 2017
As a pilot starting in the fourth quarter of 2017, ODISSEI is making a remuneration available to its particpants that make use of CBS microdata. This so-called Microdata Regulation is being provided as a contribution towards the costs for using CBS microdata.
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28 August 2017
A new Research Fellow post is available at the European Social Survey (ESS) HQ based at City, University of London funded jointly by ESS ERIC and the University.
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14 June 2017
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
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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ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer
In the ODISSEI Secure supercomputer (OSSC), researchers can analyse data from CBS in a secure way on SURF’s Snellius high-performance computing environment.
These are some recent projects:
This project uses nationwide individual-level register data from the Netherlands to study the relationship between problematic debts and mental health. The researchers use the OSSC to run the algorithm on millions of observations.
This project aims to develop a synthetic data generator framework using artificial intelligence technologies while concurrently exploring ethical-legal perspectives in the trade-off between data privacy and the potential utilization of synthetic representations. The project uses a fully data-driven method and the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer to conduct computationally expensive experiments.
How has car ownership in Amsterdam changed since the opening of the North-South metro line? This research project utilizes CBS microdata of residents of Amsterdam of the past 10 years to disentangle that complex question.
What are the effects of factors such as air pollution, noise and greenery on the health of adults based on country-wide questionnaires and registrations? This project by researchers at RIVM is highly complex and requires a great deal of computing power.
The researchers estimate the housing demand in the Netherlands with a discrete choice model which allows them to estimate what influence different house and household characteristics have on the housing choices that people in the Netherlands make. They use the OSSC for the estimation of the housing demand model and to prepare the dataset that is used to estimate the model.
What can we learn about Dutch residential planning policy from past experience? In cooperation with Utrecht University, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is researching the long-term effects of the VINEX policy.
Who uses the healthcare system and when? Obviously people use it when they get ill, but is everyone as likely to use it for the same conditions in the same way? In this study, researchers from VU Amsterdam examine whether there are specific characteristics which are associated with health care usage and that might explain differences in health outcomes in the population.
In this groundbreaking study, Statistics Netherlands linked the records of 16.9 million people, identifying their family, their neighbours, their schoolmates, and their colleagues. The resulting network allows researchers to understand how behaviour and inequalities spread across the population and where strong and weak ties exist between various groups in the population.
In this remarkable study by researchers at TU Delft, high resolution geo-spatial data are rendered for the whole of the Netherlands and identify the distribution of populations, poverty and deprivation at an unprecedented scale in order to better understand how our local neighbourhood shapes our own lives.
International collaborations
Work streams
ODISSEI consists of four closely integrated work streams.