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

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!

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 uptime.statuscake.com/?TestID=rrcYEe….

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

We're excited to help and benefit from an Effective Pipeline for Controlled Vocabularies zenodo.org/record/4485362… (and its excel2rdf predecessor at excel2rdf.readthedocs.io)! Very nice work on this #spreadsheetvocs @nvasiljevic83

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

🚨#OpenResearch News🔓We are delighted to announce our partnership with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (CEDAR) on the FAIRware project, a new initiative to make the #FAIRprinciples work for everyone⚙️Read more: bit.ly/3fkZqel #FAIRdata

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

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 BOUBRIK blog.sparna.fr/2021/06/30/fai…

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

A new collaboration between #metadatagamechangers, Dryad, and CEDAR to improve disciplinary metadata and connections between Dryad and domain repositories. metadatagamechangers.com/blog/2021/9/28…

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. CEDAR BOUBRIK

Probably I should have tweeted this first from CEDAR. 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.

The headline says it all. "Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless" nature.com/articles/d4158…

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

#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.

Loved all the #us2ts2022 plenary talks (and had fun giving mine!), but best of all was the Food and Nutrition vision that Matthew Lange 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.

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 (nature.com/articles/s4159…) to see what we've already started improving!

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).

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!