About Odesi
What is Odesi?
Odesi is a Canadian social science data repository and online analysis tool. The service contains over 5,700 datasets curated by university libraries.
Odesi provides open and enhanced access to a variety of data collections such as Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) public use microdata, historical datasets, and Canadian public opinion polls, including the Gallup Canada, IPSOS Canada, and the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA). Odesi also supports basic tabulation and analysis online, and allows for the downloading of most datasets into statistical software for further analysis.
Datasets are curated and described by staff at Canadian academic libraries using the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata standard.
Odesi was developed from 2007 to 2009 as a jointly funded project between the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and OntarioBuys. Since October 2009, Odesi has been an ongoing service maintained by Scholars Portal, OCUL, and the Odesi MarkIt! Program.
Contact Us
For any questions or help regarding Odesi, please contact us odesi@scholarsportal.info
Contributors
Odesi benefits from the contributions of many OCUL members including those that participate in the OCUL Odesi Markit! Program, the collaborative group responsible for selection, deposit, curation, DDI markup, and maintenance of the Odesi data collections. The OCUL MarkIt! Program provides funding to OCUL participants for student assistance to maintain the collections.
Markit! Program Commitee:
- University of Ottawa
- Carleton University
- McMaster University
- Queen's University
- University of Toronto
Past participants:
- Laurentian University
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- Western University
- Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
- Brock University