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.