News – ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

1 February 20231 February 2023 Thomas Groen

CBS – ODISSEI Microdata Meeting – Energy Poverty in Figures

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.

20 January 202320 January 2023 Thomas Groen

SICSS-ODISSEI summer school open for applications

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.

22 December 20221 February 2023 Thomas Groen

SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School confirmed for June 2023

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.

19 December 202219 December 2022 Thomas Groen

LISS Grants 2022 Announcement

ODISSEI has granted LISS panel grants to five research projects. Read more about each project in this article.

14 December 202222 December 2022 Angelica Maineri

FAIR yes, but how? FAIR Implementation Profiles in the Social Sciences

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.

5 December 20225 December 2022 Suze Zijlstra

First Aid for Data Questions: how SoDa can help develop web scrapers and AI models

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.

28 November 202228 November 2022 Thomas Groen

ODISSEI Grant Application Support information session

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.

25 November 202225 November 2022 Thomas Groen

Looking back on the ODISSEI Conference 2022

On 3 November, the ODISSEI Conference 2022 took place. Read a report, take a look at the photos and the recorded sessions here.

10 November 202210 November 2022 Generic Admin

I love PIDs – and so should you!

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.

27 October 202228 October 2022 Suze Zijlstra

ODISSEI presents: Harmonising Access Procedures for Sensitive data at the FAIR Data Day

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”.