The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) is taking concrete steps to improve the FAIRness of COVID-19 and health research data. As part of its national guidance on metadata, ZonMw highlights CEDAR as a key tool for researchers to create machine-readable, reusable metadata. FAIR Starts with Metadata In ZonMw’s official Guidance on Metadata […]
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 […]
CEDAR is now a core tool in the GO FAIR Foundation’s Metadata for Machines (M4M) workshops—practical, community-driven events designed to accelerate the creation of FAIR, machine-actionable metadata. What Is M4M? The M4M workshop series brings together domain experts and metadata specialists to rapidly co-develop reusable, standards-aligned metadata templates for their communities (https://www.gofairfoundation.org/m4m/). The ultimate goal: […]
We’re excited to announce the release of CEDAR‑CLI, a Python‑based command‑line tool designed to simplify development, deployment, and release processes across the CEDAR ecosystem. Why CEDAR‑CLI? The CEDAR platform is large and complex. It spans approximately 50 Git repositories, with 15 microservices, 6 small front‑end projects, and 6 infrastructure services that work together to deliver […]