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