Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable EditorMartin J. O'Connor, Marcos Martinez-Romero, Attila L. Egyedi, Mete U. Akdogan, Michael V. Dorf, Mark A. Musenhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00859
Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable EditorHigh-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 tha…