CEDAR is out of service for a few hours so we can release a number of improvements. Please bear with us and we'll have it back up as soon as we can!.

We have sedated CEDAR for some key operational upgrades today, our apologies for the inconvenience. It will be back better than ever later today (Wednesday).

We're creating new capabilities using CEDAR, the semantically rich metadata tool/framework/specification. See our new paper .Modeling community standards for metadata as templates makes data FAIR ( to see what we've already started improving!.

Loved all the #us2ts2022 plenary talks (and had fun giving mine!), but best of all was the Food and Nutrition vision that @mateolan and co-presenters shared. It isn't (just) about ontologies, it's about saving the planet and our lives! Well, at least improving them. Awesome.

#us2ts2022 exceeded all my (John G's) expectations. so much interesting exchange by so few attendees! The last wrap-up discussion holds a lot of promise for growing the US2TS brand.

Thanks to the GO FAIR Foundation @GOFAIRofficial for all the support they've been generating for CEDAR @metadatacenter and BioPortal @bioontology. They have been leading the workshops like those hosted by ZonMw in the article. Up to 21 and counting! On to @gofairus.

The headline says it all. "Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless"

Probably I should have tweeted this first from @metadatacenter. Because that's the first priority for our to-be-hired UI/UX senior SW Developer. Please consider working on these fun and impactful projects at Stanford University.

So excited to go to the #VODANA kick-off demonstration showing off CEDAR and the internal dashboards. Even at 5am it is all very impressive. @metadatacenter @ncbo.

RT @TedHabermann: A new collaboration between #metadatagamechangers, @datadryad, and @metadatacenter to improve disciplinary metadata and c….

Nice to get a CEDAR mention in "Ten simple rules for annotating sequencing experiments" (Irene Stevens et al) (Of course, we also think CEDAR is good for complex models. ).

Since it helps CEDAR/BioPortal pipelines so much, have to promo this promo of @nvasiljevic83 and #skosplay (thanks Thomas!): Fair Data Collective is doing cool things with SKOS Play and xls2rdf @ncbo

Really enjoyed presenting and discussing CEDAR and BioPortal @ncbo at the Dataverse conference yesterday, well worth the 6am alarm! Looking forward to more discussions. #metadata .@dataverseorg. #FAIRdata #opendata #openscience #opensource.

RT @RoRInstitute: 🚨#OpenResearch News🔓We are delighted to announce our partnership with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Rese….

Really exciting to see our embeddable editor technology being prototyped internationally by the VODAN Africa and Asia team! @VodanAfrica

We're excited to help and benefit from an Effective Pipeline for Controlled Vocabularies (and its excel2rdf predecessor at ! Very nice work on this #spreadsheetvocs @nvasiljevic83.

Y'all out there should come to RDA VSSIG next time. :-).

After learning plenty from last week's exercise, this Friday at noon Pacific Time (20:00 GMT) we will retry the CEDAR maintenance. We're estimating 5 hours down time, but please do not count on having the system later on Friday. You can get updates at

CEDAR is offline for a few hours for some necessary upgrades. We hope to be back around 5 PM Pacific Time (01:00 GMT). Thanks for your patience!.

We're having a great time in "full operations" mode for the @ZonMw COVID Training / @GOFAIRofficial M4M workshops next week. Appreciate the effort of all the trainers to get this process ready for action! #fairmetadata.