Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable Editor
Martin J. O'Connor, Marcos Martinez-Romero, Attila L. Egyedi, Mete U. Akdogan, Michael V. Dorf, Mark A. Musen

TL;DR
The paper introduces the CEDAR Embeddable Editor, a lightweight web component that enables seamless, standards-based metadata authoring within third-party research platforms to improve data discoverability and interoperability.
Contribution
It presents the CEDAR Embeddable Editor, a novel, interoperable web component that integrates rich metadata authoring directly into existing research workflows without custom UI development.
Findings
Successfully integrated into Dryad and OSF repositories
Supports ontology-based value selection and persistent identifiers
Enhances metadata quality and standard adoption
Abstract
High-quality, "rich" metadata are essential for making research data findable, interoperable, and reusable. The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) has long addressed this need by providing tools to design machine-actionable metadata templates that encode community standards in a computable form. To make these capabilities more accessible within real-world research workflows, we have developed the CEDAR Embeddable Editor (CEE)-a lightweight, interoperable Web Component that brings structured, standards-based metadata authoring directly into third-party platforms. The CEE dynamically renders metadata forms from machine-actionable templates and produces semantically rich metadata in JSON-LD format. It supports ontology-based value selection via the BioPortal ontology repository, and it includes external authority resolution for persistent identifiers such as ORCIDs…
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Taxonomy
TopicsResearch Data Management Practices · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
