What’s going on related to CEDAR?

CEDAR User Guide Now Available

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We’re pleased to announce the release of the CEDAR User Guide, a comprehensive, searchable resource to help users navigate the CEDAR Workbench.

Whether you’re designing metadata templates, filling in forms, or managing metadata artifacts, the guide walks you through key features with step-by-step instructions, annotated screenshots, and helpful tips. It’s ideal for both new users and experienced template authors looking to get more out of CEDAR.

📘 Explore the guide here:
https://metadatacenter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-overview/

Let us know what you think—we’ll continue updating it as the platform evolves!

CEDAR Offers Support for CDEs from caDSR

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We are pleased to report that CEDAR template creators can now import from over 60,000 of NCI’s caDSR Common Data Elements (CDEs) to build new Fields in CEDAR. Using CEDAR’s search, browsing, and viewing services template builders can easily build a form based partly or entirely on CDEs from caDSR.

Over the last 18 months, CEDAR developers have collaborated with the NCI to adapt CEDAR capabilities to the unique characteristics of CDEs. By representing these CDEs as CEDAR Fields, we have made them fully accessible to CEDAR users. CEDAR already handled many of the specialized features that are found in the caDSR templates, and the CEDAR team added some features to support particular CDE workflows.

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CEDAR in the GO FAIR Funder Study

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After providing contributions to the GO FAIR project over the last 18 months, CEDAR will be a significant participant in GO FAIR’s FAIR Funder Implementation Study.

This collaborative project will demonstrate a new level of integrated and FAIR metadata, making data projects funded by research agencies demonstrably more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. As one of the founding collaborators, CEDAR has played a significant role in defining, describing, and implementing services that will improve metadata collection for funded research.

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