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.

Developed by the CEDAR team, the CEE is a lightweight, standards-compliant Web Component that enables third-party platforms to embed machine-actionable metadata templates directly into their interfaces. Instead of sending researchers off to external metadata portals, the CEE brings structured metadata authoring directly into the systems where scientists already work—lowering friction, improving consistency, and aligning with the FAIR principles.

Recently, two major research data platforms—Dryad and the Open Science Framework (OSF)—have integrated the CEE to enhance their metadata workflows.