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Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable Editor

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|Jan 2026

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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 16, 2025
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Accepted on: Dec 17, 2025
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Published on: Jan 27, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2026 Martin J. O’Connor, Marcos Martínez-Romero, Attila L. Egyedi, Mete U. Akdogan, Michael V. Dorf, Mark A. Musen, published by Ubiquity Press
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