Entries by CEDAR admin

Empowering Rich Metadata Entry: How Dryad and OSF Are Using the CEDAR Embeddable Editor

April 24, 2024 in /by

As scientific data sharing becomes increasingly vital to research transparency and reuse, the role of high-quality metadata has never been more important. Yet, creating structured, standards-aligned metadata remains a complex task—especially when researchers are forced to navigate unfamiliar tools or metadata standards outside their everyday workflows. That’s where the CEDAR Embeddable Editor (CEE) steps in. […]

ZonMw Recommends CEDAR for FAIR Metadata Creation

January 28, 2024 in /by

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 […]

CEDAR Now Supports DOI Minting with DataCite

November 28, 2023 in /by

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 Powers Machine-Actionable Metadata in M4M Workshops

August 28, 2023 in /by

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: […]