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 […]
We’re pleased to share that a new paper from the CEDAR team has been accepted for presentation at the 2026 AMIA Annual Symposium: “Automated Standardization of Legacy Biomedical Metadata Using an Ontology-Constrained LLM Agent.” CEDAR’s core idea is that community metadata standards should be machine-actionable—encoded as templates that specify not just which fields are required, […]