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We’re pleased to announce that CEDAR users can now mint Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for their metadata templates and instances—directly from within the CEDAR platform. This new capability, developed in collaboration with the FAIR Workflows Project (https://datacite.org/implementing-fair-workflows-project/), enhances the visibility, permanence, and citability of the metadata authored in CEDAR.

A New Level of Metadata Publication

This integration with DataCite (https://datacite.org/), a leading DOI registration agency, enables CEDAR to treat metadata artifacts as first-class research outputs. Users can now publish finalized metadata templates and instances, assign them persistent identifiers, and make them discoverable through DataCite’s global infrastructure.

Importantly, DOI assignment is available only for published, versioned templates and instances—helping ensure that identifiers are reserved for complete, shareable resources.

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