eagle-i is a distributed platform for creating and sharing semantically rich data. It is built around semantic web technologies and follows linked open data principles. In its current incarnation and operational deployment, eagle-i focuses on biomedical research resources.

Groundbreaking biomedical research requires access to cutting edge scientific resources, resources that in many cases are invisible beyond the laboratories or institutions where they were developed. The eagle-i Consortium has built a prototype of a national research resource discovery network–one that will help biomedical scientists search for and find previously invisible, but highly valuable, resources. This resource discovery network was launched to the eagle-i Consortium community in early May 2011.