Everyone knows about FAIR. But has anyone done FAIR? What does it mean to evaluate a distributed discovery tool containing research resources via the FAIR principles? Released in 2010, eagle-i (www.eagle-i.net) is an open, accessible discovery network of people, core facilities and research materials composed of an RDF framework, downloadable ontology/platform, public SPARQL interface, and an API. I will report on my attempts to: 1. Evaluate the ontology on how well it supports Findability within the disciplinary standards of bioinformatics and translational research; 2. Evaluate the eagle-i communications protocols and infrastructure for Accessibility; 3. Determine if the eagle-i ontology allows enough Interoperability for researchers to incorporate eagle-I resources into their scholcomm efforts 4. Develop metrics for our metadata to determine if it contains sufficient attributes and provenance to allow for Reuse.
Will I escape the funhouse and avoid being ambushed by a clown posse? The FAIRness of eagle-I will be revealed!
