Announcements of updates to CEDAR software

CEDAR 2.8.0 Now Live: RRID and PubMed ID Field Support

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This latest update strengthens CEDAR’s ability to support rich, standardized scientific metadata through the addition of new external authority field types.

What’s New

RRID Field Support
CEDAR now supports the RRID (Research Resource Identifier) field type. Template authors can include RRID fields in their templates and instances, allowing users to record standardized identifiers for reagents, tools, and model organisms. This enhancement improves metadata consistency, reproducibility, and interoperability across datasets.

PubMed ID Field Support
CEDAR now provides a PubMed ID field type for linking scientific publications directly within metadata instances. Authors can reference PubMed IDs to automatically connect to the corresponding publications in PubMed, streamlining citation management and ensuring clear traceability to supporting literature.

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For more information about CEDAR features, visit the CEDAR manual or explore our GitHub repository.

CEDAR 2.7.11 Now Live: PFAS Field Support and Embedded Editor Improvements

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We’re pleased to announce that CEDAR 2.7.11 has been successfully deployed to production. This release brings important improvements to the metadata authoring experience and introduces support for additional field types.

What’s New

PFAS Field Availability
CEDAR now supports the new PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) field. Template authors can incorporate PFAS-related metadata fields directly into their templates and instances, enabling richer environmental and chemical data modeling within CEDAR.

Embedded Editor as the Default
The CEDAR embedded instance editor is now the default editing experience in the Workbench. This editor offers a more integrated, streamlined approach to instance editing, improving responsiveness and simplifying the user interface.

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CEDAR 2.7.7 Released: ORCID and ROR Field Support

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We’re pleased to announce that CEDAR version 2.7.7 has been deployed to production. This release introduces support for two important external authority fields—ORCID and ROR—bringing more precision and interoperability to your metadata authoring workflows.

What’s New

ORCID Field Support
You can now directly look up and validate contributor identities against the ORCID registry. When you add a person’s ORCID to your metadata, CEDAR verifies it and records a globally recognized, persistent identifier.

ROR Field Support
Similarly, the new ROR field lets you search for and reference institutions and organizations through the Research Organization Registry. This ensures that organization names in your metadata are unambiguous, standardized, and easily linked across datasets.

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CEDAR Release 2.4

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We released version 2.4 of the CEDAR Workbench on September 6, providing more user features and enhancements.

OpenView offers public option for CEDAR artifacts

OpenView of metadata instanceDid you ever want to show your template or metadata values to a colleague, without logging in? Do you want to view all your metadata on the web? Or maybe you’d like an IRI that anyone can use to see your work?

Now you can make your CEDAR artifact—metadata instance, template, element, or field—visible on the web. CEDAR’s OpenView service presents the CEDAR artifact as a publicly visible web page, with pop-up metadata descriptions and access to JSON and RDF views of the content. To make public your template, element, or field, simply enable OpenView from the workspace menu for the artifact. For now, if you want to make your metadata public, the template it’s based on must also be public—we can help you with this.

Instructions for CEDAR’s OpenView feature may be found at its CEDAR manual page.

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