Macroscope develops world’s first population-level research infrastructure and will be designed to observe and understand changes in societies over time.
The Macroscope is a collaborative initiative by ODISSEI and CLARIAH, and is being coordinated by the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Macroscope project unites 14 Dutch universities with leading institutes, including Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Centerdata, SURF, the Netherlands eScience Center, the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, the National Library (KB), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (B&G), the KNAW Humanities Cluster, and DANS.
The project aims to develop the world’s first population-level research infrastructure, enabling researchers to securely link and analyse massive datasets spanning social, cultural and digital domains across the entire Dutch population.
DANS contributes to the Macroscope project by further developing the search infrastructure currently available for discovering existing datasets within the ODISSEI Portal as well as the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities.
