CEDAR has a comprehensive page dedicated to providing users with guidelines, workshops, and tools needed to use the platform. Including but not limited to: CEDAR Workbench Orientation, FAQ, Youtube Metadata Channel, Tips, A List of Relevant References, CEDAR Template Tools, Training Tutorials and more. All these resources are available on: https://more.metadatacenter.org/tools-training.
CEDAR is a tool that is designed specifically for scientists and data creators form the biomedical discipline, and provides these individuals with a library to metadata management templates appropriate for a variety of scientific investigations. Moreover, this tool enables collaboration within the biomedical industry through the process of creating templates, sharing metadata standards and metadata values with other members, and most importantly, emphasizing the importance of machine-readable data so that the information is equally available to all users.
This tool was created to facilitate metadata management in the biomedical industry, especially providing metadata templates that can be tailored for a wide variety of biomedical investigations.
CEDAR was established in 2014, and is constantly being improved by the team to facilitate metadata management plans and guidelines for sharing data among data creators in the scientific discipline.
The designers of CEDAR include, Stanford University, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Illuminating the Druggable Genome, Yale University, Minimum Information model for the Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) Community. The purpose of this tool was to facilitate open science data, ensuring that the data is FAIR, and facilitating scientific reproducibility.
CEDAR provides data creators from within the scientific discipline with the ability to: 1) Create user-friendly, shareable forms for collecting metadata, with nested form elements, 2) Build reusable form components that can be shared and published in libraries, 3) Collaborate with other users and groups of users to build forms and fill in forms with metadata, 4) Publish the forms for others to use to enter metadata, and 5) Submit data and metadata to NCBI repositories directly.