The CEDAR Workbench: An Ontology-Assisted Environment for Authoring Metadata that Describe Scientific Experiments

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TitleThe CEDAR Workbench: An Ontology-Assisted Environment for Authoring Metadata that Describe Scientific Experiments
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsGonçalves RS, O’Connor MJ, Martínez-Romero M, Egyedi AL, Willrett D, Graybeal J, Musen MA
Conference NameInternational Semantic Web Conference
Date PublishedOctober, 2017
PublisherISWC
Conference LocationVienna, Austria
Abstract

The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) aims to revolutionize the way that metadata describing scientific experiments are authored. The software we have developed¾the CEDAR Workbench¾is a suite of Web-based tools and REST APIs that allows users to construct metadata tem-plates, to fill in templates to generate high-quality metadata, and to share and manage these resources. The CEDAR Workbench provides a versatile, REST-based environment for authoring metadata that are enriched with terms from on-tologies. The metadata are available as JSON, JSON-LD, or RDF for easy inte-gration in scientific applications and reusability on the Web. Users can leverage our APIs for validating and submitting metadata to external repositories. The CEDAR Workbench is freely available and open-source.

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