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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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New Java Library: CEDAR Artifact Library Now Available

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We’ve released a new Java library to make working with CEDAR metadata easier for developers: the CEDAR Artifact Library.

This lightweight library provides Java classes for modeling and manipulating CEDAR metadata artifacts—such as templates, template elements, fields, and instances. It’s designed to simplify the process of working with CEDAR’s JSON-based metadata structures by offering an intuitive, object-oriented interface for developers building tools, pipelines, or services that work with machine-actionable metadata.

Key capabilities include:

  • Parsing and serializing CEDAR JSON metadata
  • Full object models for templates, fields, elements, and instances
  • Built-in knowledge of CEDAR’s schema structure
  • Round-trip support for reading and writing JSON
  • Easy integration into Java-based metadata tools and validation workflows
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