SoDa Team Workshop: Causal Impact Assessment
In May 2023, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa) hosted a workshop on causal impact assessment. The workshop materials are now available online.
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FAIR Software for the Social Sciences
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.
Open Position: National Coordinator European Social Survey
The European Social Survey (ESS) is looking for a national coordinator. Lees hier meer over de positie en de sollicitatieprocedure.
New version of the ODISSEI Portal – More data to find and improved search
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.
Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2023
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on computational social science to be given at its conference on 2 November 2023 in Utrecht.
Collecting vocabularies in the social sciences: the Awesome Ontologies for the Social Sciences
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.
First Aid for Data Questions: How the SoDa team empowers interdisciplinary scientists with computational methods
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.
LISS panel Call information session
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.
ODISSEI Grant Application Support information session
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.
Find, Use, Cite, Repeat: A short guide on how to cite microdata from Statistics Netherlands
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…