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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Sociologie Magazine, Rense Corten (Utrecht University) writes about the future of empirical sociology, including the role that research infrastructures such as ODISSEI play.
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.
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.
