CEDAR 2.9.5 is now in production, bringing with it the changes from CEDAR 2.9.2, which was released but not deployed separately. The most important change for developers is that browser applications no longer have to treat CEDAR artifacts as untyped JSON. The CEDAR Artifact Library already gave Java applications typed builders, readers, writers, and validators, […]
Good metadata is still made by hand. Someone reads a dataset, its data dictionary, a protocol, and a paper, then transcribes what they learned into a structured form, choosing a standardized term for each value. It is slow work, and it is exactly the kind of reading and restructuring that a large language model does […]
CEDAR has long been able to hand users a template, element, field or an instance as YAML — a clean, human-readable format that is easy to skim, edit by hand, and track in version control. With the 2.9.0 release, that street now runs both ways: CEDAR accepts YAML too. You can author and edit templates, […]
Open science runs on a patchwork of repositories, standards, and tools that rarely fit together cleanly. Easing that fragmentation has been one of CEDAR’s central goals — letting a research community define its metadata standards once and then use them anywhere. A new post from the Dryad team, Dryad and CEDAR: Supporting more research communities […]