After months of intensive work, EGAD is delighted to announce the publication of version 0.1 of RiC Application Guidelines (RiC-AG).
RiC-AG is currently available online as a website, accessible at: https://ica-egad.github.io/RiC-AG/. A PDF version will also be published soon.
If you wish to browse the website locally on your computer, you can download the release at: https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-AG/releases/tag/v0.1.0. Once downloaded and unzipped, you will find the website in the ‘docs’ subfolder (the home page is the ‘index.html’ page).
RiC-AG is the last of the four complementary documents that constitute the Records in Contexts standard and address the activity of describing records. It is intended to provide archival practitioners, developers, and managers guidance in understanding and implementing archival description systems based on RiC, particularly focusing on the RiC Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
When designing the AG, EGAD took into account the comments received on RiC-CM 0.2, the user stories gathered in 2024, feedback from users who already have implemented RiC, and many discussions held with members of the concerned communities. Nevertheless, while RiC-AG aims to provide broad guidance that will be helpful across a range of scenarios, it does not offer specific guidance that will address every possible user context.
RiC-AG 0.1 is a draft document. With the initial release, the EGAD invites the community to provide feedback.
RiC-AG is dynamically generated from sources managed on GitHub. The EGAD group will therefore be able to develop it step by step, whether it involves modifying details, adding new sections or FAQs.
