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A screenshot of the ODISSEI Portal

This week a new version of the ODISSEI Portal is launched. This is the fourth release since the first prototype which was launched in September 2022. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability, and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands.

The Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) publishes their data through DataverseNL. One of their datasets, the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) has already been downloaded more than 110,000 times.

On 28 September, DANS hosted the second CLARIAH Tech & Data Day, which focussed on FAIR data management in the humanities. Here is a recap of the day.

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. In September 2023, the latest version of the ELSST was released. Find out about some of the most important changes here.

In May, DANS co-organized the ‘BY-COVID Workshop on the integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness’ in The Hague. A joint report by workshop participants and other experts has now been published, describing the presentations, discussions during the event, and providing a roadmap for how socioeconomic data can contribute to studies of vaccine effectiveness as well as other infectious disease research moving forward.

In May and June 2023 the University of Pretoria, South Africa held their annual CODATA-RDA School for Research Data Science (SoRDS). This online school, part of the international SoRDS network, focuses on building foundational data science skills amongst early career researchers in low/middle-income countries. The schools are staffed by volunteer instructors and a small number of student helpers to support the learners. These dedicated volunteer helpers play a vital role in the success of the schools. To encourage the student helpers and acknowledge the importance of their work, DANS awarded the most active helper with a ticket to the IASSIST African chapter.

The IFLA Library Services for Multicultural Populations (MCULTP) Satellite event with the theme ‘Empowering Diverse Librarianship’ will present library workers with the tools to build, sustain, and strengthen a diverse and inclusive workplace through a variety of presentations and panel discussions. This Satellite aims to hold a forum for all library workers, to establish mutual understanding through hearing others’ voices.

Images of the Open Science participants joining online.

The international Open Science Conference was held on 27-29 June 2023, celebrating its 10th anniversary. We provided several different sessions in the programme and had a great time discussing current topics and developments with all kinds of different stakeholders. Join us in looking back on these lovely few days!