O'FAIRe

Automated
Ontology
Limited

O'FAIRe is a methodology and Java web service that scores an ontology or other semantic resource with 61 questions on the 15 FAIR principles, using the metadata held in an OntoPortal ontology repository. Its README names deployments in AgroPortal, SIFR BioPortal and IndustryPortal.

Use case: Assessing an ontology that is stored in an OntoPortal repository with metadata descriptions.

Open: O'FAIRe (opens in a new tab) https://github.com/agroportal/fairness

Status note

On 2026-10-25 the GitHub repository loaded. The hosted service addresses named in the README (services.agroportal.lirmm.fr, bioportal.lirmm.fr, industryportal.enit.fr) did not respond within 30 seconds, and agroportal.lirmm.fr redirected to agroportal.eu, which reset the connection.

Facts

Operator: LIRMM (University of Montpellier) and MISTEA (INRAE Montpellier)
Assessed objects: Ontology
Mode: Automated
Inputs: Record in the tool's portal
Frameworks: Custom
Output: A JSON result with a score and an explanation for each question, a score for each FAIR principle and a normalized score from 0 to 100.
Source code: https://github.com/agroportal/fairness (opens in a new tab)
License: MIT
Status: Limited
API: Available
Self-hostable: Yes

Last verified: 2026-10-25

References

O'FAIRe: Ontology FAIRness Evaluator in the AgroPortal semantic resource repository (ESWC 2022 poster, HAL record) (opens in a new tab) hal-lirmm.ccsd.cnrs.fr
FAIR-IMPACT FAIR assessment tools page (opens in a new tab) fair-impact.eu