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A general explanation from ZonMw about this approach can be found here: https://www.zonmw.nl/nl/fair-metadata-en-data-onderzoeksprojecten .

Please mind that this page explains how to add your metadata to Cedar in order to get it onto the Covid Portal. For specific questions on the use of Cedar itself, please refer to: https://more.metadatacenter.org/tools-training/support

Steps to enter your metadata for the Covid Portal

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See the templates in the section Metadata Forms for ZonMw COVID-19 Community

Important! Make sure to use the latest version of the Covid template, or your information will not be visible on the Covid Portal.

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The Project Admin template should be filled in first, it contains basic information about the project. After the form is saved copy the link from the address bar of your browser. The middle part of the link, between /createedit and ?folderId=, is your Admin template’s template instance’s id: copy it (e.g. to a text editor) and keep it till all the templates template instances for the project are filled (you’ll need to refer to it later on, see below).

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The next template to fill in is Project Content containing more extended information about the project. At the end of the form, there is a box to put in the Poject Project Admin template instance reference we have just copied:

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For Dataset metadata, there are three types of templates to populate: Distribution, Dataset and Catalog:

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Start with the Distribution template, create and fill in instances for each distribution you have in your project. After a Distribution template instance is created and saved copy it’s id its ID as you have done for the Project Admin Template. Links to Distribution template instances should be placed in the Dataset template instance in the corresponding box, the form allows the addition of multiple values:

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Copy links to Dataset template instances after you save them, those links are used to connect link everything with within the Catalog template. In this template form, you’ll see fields to add a reference to the Project Admin template instance and Dataset template instances:

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So in practice:

1. Select a template by ……

2. Create the form based on the template by …..

3. Make sure to enable “Open View” to make your metadata available on Open View:

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• Make sure to share with ZonMw Covid Metadata group as well as Health-RI editors and give them “can write” access so that support will be easier in case of issues:

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How to delete a project in the COVID-19 portal

To safely delete a project from the COVID-19 portal

1. Go to the corresponding Cedar Project Admin template instance page (you can navigate there from the project page in the portal “CEDAR admin project ID”)

2. Add "TEST-" before the project title and save, e.g.:

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3. Wait up to 15 min. Once in 15 minutes an automatic job runs and updates projects in the COVID-19 portal. All the projects with titles starting with “TEST-“ are removed.

4. Make sure the project is deleted from the portal, now corresponding Cedar template instances can be deleted.

FAQ

Which of these projects can I also see on the national health data catalogue on healthdata.nl?

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1. Make sure that all the documents that you want to transfer are in a separate folder.

2. For each artifact:

   1. Open the context menu.

   2. Open “Share…”

   3. In the “With people” section, in the text field which says “enter user name” start entering the other person’s name. Once the name shows up, click on it.

   4. Next to this field, in the dropdown select “owner”.

   5. Click on the “OK” below the name.

   6. On the right you will see that the owner has been changed.

   7. You can close this dialog now.

3. Once all the artifacts are transferred to the other person, share the enclosing folder with write capabilities with the other person.

4. The other person should log into CEDAR, and click the “Shared with Me” in the left menu.

   1. Locate the folder that was shared with you. Inside of it there will be the artifacts that now belong to you.

   2. For each of them, open the context menu, and using the “Move to…” dialog, move the artifact to a folder under your home directory.