In this short article, we review some tips and best practices to share code, as a complement to the ODISSEI lecture on the ODISSEI Code Library (see slides). The short article is meant to help ODISSEI users to comply with the User Policy,  but it also  provides general tips and resources that can al

A benchmarking challenge is when various teams of participants are set a challenge to predict a particular outcome. At the end of the challenge, the teams’ performances are evaluated based on a predefined set of matrices and evaluation criteria.

The MCAL team built the MCALentory, a searchable inventory of publications on media content analysis published in various communication science journals since 2001.

As part of ODISSEI, data from the HSNDB dataset Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) has been linked with the current Statistics Netherlands microdata and catalogued in the ODISSEI Portal. This enables links between the historical research conducted using the HSN and contemporary society and t

NetAudit bridges the gap between social and computer scientists by developing tools to analyse large population networks through interpretable network embeddings.

This blog post describes a study led by Dr. Karin van Es and Dr. Dennis Nguyen at Utrecht University, which investigates how students are using generative AI tools like ChatGPT for academic purposes. A key innovation in this study is the use of data donation—a method where students voluntarily share

We are happy to present a new release of the ODISSEI Portal. Find more than 8,500 datasets available across different Dutch data providers, including CBS, LISS, DANS and the institutes affiliated with DataverseNL. The new release includes the option to filter on licences, making it easier to search

As a part of the European data strategy, there are two laws that will have a significant impact on society: the Data Governance Act and the Data Act. The precise implications for social science and humanities research are yet unclear. In this article, Marlon Domingus (EUR Data Protection Officer) an

In this blog post, we look at the need for de-identifying data, the different ways of doing this, and some of the issues around balancing the competing interests of anonymity and reusability of data.

Together with SURF and CBS, ODISSEI reached a milestone by re-establishing the legal framework for operating the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC). In the OSSC, researchers can perform analyses of extremely sensitive CBS microdata by using SURF’s high-performance computing environment Snellius. Th

The Microdata Access Grant offers financing for research projects using CBS microdata. In the 2024 round of the Call for Proposals for the Microdata Access Grant, we received 19 applications. The reviewers in this round were: Govert Bijwaard (NIDI), Peter Lanjouw (VU), Deni Mazrekaj (UU), Kim Stiens

When you are depositing data in a repository for long-term preservation and sharing, you will be asked to select a licence for your dataset. The process of licensing is an important enabler of the FAIR Principle [1] letter ‘R’: ‘Reusable’. This principle advises that data (and metadata) should be re