Connects an Ownership Relation to a Person, Group or Position that is involved as an owner.
ownership relation has source
Connects a Thing to one of its past or present Names.
has or had name
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasName").
Connects an Agent or Activity that is the provenance of a Record resource or Instantiation, to a Provenance Relation
agent or activity is target of provenance relation
Authority record
This category can be used for records that describe an entity.
Summary of the scope (such as time periods, geography) and content (such as subject matter, administrative processes) of the Record Resource. It should highlight the information conveyed in the Record Resource, why it was created, received, and/or maintained, and the Agents connected to it. Scope and Content provides a more complete summary of the informational content of the Record Resource. It may include description of relations with agents, activities, dates and places, or with other record resources. It is not to be confused with the History attribute which focuses on the origination and subsequence changes to a Record Resource.
scope and content
Text definition updated. Examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Se hace referencia a construcción del Gran Hotel, iniciada en 1899 bajo el nombre de Casa Celestino. Tras su interrupción en 1902, continuó la obra ya con su nombre actual.
Includes a detailed list of the lands and villages given by the King to the Abbey.
Among the witnesses, the duke of Normandy.
Letter from Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) to the Council of Kronstadt asking them to send military support against the Ottomans, within the framework of their alliance treaty.
The author explains why he does not agree with the decision made and adds that it cannot be applied.
Corresponds to RiC-A38 (Scope and Content attribute)
Specifies the provenance or origin of at least one Record Resource or Instantiation, for example the relation between a Record Resource and the Agent which created it or the Activity from which it resulted.
Provenance Relation
This relation stands for organic and for functional provenance.
Connects a Person to the Group that Person leads or led in the past.
is or was leader of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isLeaderOf").
RiC-R042 ('is or was leader of' relation)
Connects an Agent or Record Resource to a Language that it uses or used.
has or had language
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasLanguage").
An idea, unit of thought, abstract cultural object or category
Concept
Connects two to more Record Resources when there is a genetic relation between them. Genetic in this sense is as defined by diplomatics, i.e. the process by which a Record Resource is developed.
Record Resource Genetic Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R023 and RiC-023i relations
Indicates the precision of a date. It specifies if, and to what extent, the value is an estimation.
date qualifier
examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
during
exact
circa
Corresponds to RiC-A13 (Date Qualifier attribute)
Connects a predecessor Agent to an Agent Temporal Relation
agent is source of agent temporal relation
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Agent that receives it in the course of its activities.
has receiver
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "receivedBy").
RiC-R029 ('has receiver' relation)
Connects a Title to a Record Resource, Instantiation or Rule that it designated or designates.
is or was title of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isTitleOf").
Connects a Record Resource (that was instantiated) to a Record Resource To Instantiation Relation
record resource is source of record resource to instantiation relation
Connects a Corporate Body to a Corporate Body Type which categorizes or categorized it.
has or had corporate body type
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasCorporateBodyType").
Connects a Carrier Type to an Instantiation whose carrier it categorizes.
is carrier type of
Changed the super property IRI.
Describes any relevant physical or software feature of any device involved in the creation or management of a Record Resource.
technical characteristics
Scope note and examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Hubble Space Telescope had until 2002 a flawed mirror that introduced severe spherical aberration for the images.
Does not include references to the workflow that the Mechanism is involved in which is described under the Activity entity. It emphasizes those features that provide a better understanding of the impact of the Mechanism on the records.
Corresponds to RiC-A41 (Technical Characteristics attribute)
Inverse of 'is or was enforced by' object property.
is or was responsible for enforcing
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isResponsibleForEnforcing").
RiC-R066i ('is or was responsible for enforcing' relation)
Connects at least one Person, and at least one Position that the Person occupies.
Position Holding Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R054 and RiC-R054i relations
Connects an Instantiation to an Instantiation that is derived from it.
has derived instantiation
RiC-R014 ('has derived instantiation' relation)
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is created, sent or accumulated) to an Agent Origination Relation.
record resource or instantiation is source of agent origination relation
Connects a Descendance Relation to one of the descendant Persons
descendance relation has target
Connects a Creation Relation to the Role Type that the creator Agent(s) has in the creation process
creation with role
Connects a Functional Equivalence Relation to one of the functionally equivalent Instantiations.
functional equivalence relation connects
Inverse of 'exists or existed in' object property.
has or had position
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasPosition").
RiC-R056i ('has or had position' relation)
Connects a Child Relation to a parent Person
child relation has source
Connects a Record or a Record Part to a Content Type which categorizes its content.
has content of type
changed the text definition and superproperty IRI.
Connects a Rule to the Agent that issued or published the Rule.
issued by
RiC-R065 ('issued by' relation)
Inverse of 'has derived instantiation' object property.
is derived from instantiation
RiC-R014i ('is derived from instantiation' relation)
Inverse of 'has collector' object property.
is collector of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property and super property IRI, text definition, domain (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "collects").
RiC-R030i ('is collector of' relation)
Connects at least one Person and at least one Group, when the first one leads the second one.
Leadership Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R042 and RiC-R042i relations
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Agent that accumulates it, be it intentionally (collecting) or not (receiving in the course of its activities).
has accumulator
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition and corresponding CM component (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "accumulatedBy").
RiC-R028 ('has accumulator' relation)
Connects a Record Set to a Record or Record Set it aggregates, or aggregated in the past.
includes or included
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "includes").
A Record or Record Set can be aggregated in one or many Record Sets simultaneously or through time
RiC-R024 ('includes or included' relation)
Connects an Extent to a Unit Of Measurement
has unit of measurement
Object property created along with Extent and UnitOfMeasurement classes, in order to provide methods for handling extent accurately.
Inverse of 'is beginning date of' object property
has beginning date
RiC-R069i ('has beginning date' relation)
Finding aid
This documentary form type can be used for records that aggregate and organizes metadata on some record(s) or record set(s).
A spoken or written human language represented in the Record or Record Part, or used by the Agent.
Language
Scope note from RiC-CM : deleted.
Changed the definition (skos:comment annotation); so that it conforms to the RiC-CM one.
Corresponds to RiC-A25 (Language attribute)
Connects a Place to a Thing that is or was located in the Place.
is or was location of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isLocationOf").
RiC-R075 ('is or was location of' relation)
Reference system used for geographical coordinates.
geodesic system
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that documents an Activity) to an Activity Documentation Relation.
record resource or instantiation is source of activity documentation relation
Connects a Position to a Leadership Relation (the leading Person occupies that Position).
position is context of leadership relation
Connects a Sibling Relation to one of the siblings involved.
sibling relation connects
Inverse of 'is death date of' object property
has death date
RiC-R072i ('has death date' relation)
Chronological information associated with an entity that contributes to its identification and contextualization.
date
Provided for usability reasons, like its subproperties. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use Date classes for handling dates.
Data property implementation of RiC-E18 (Date entity)
Connects a Rule to a Thing that it regulates or regulated.
regulates or regulated
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "regulates").
RiC-R063 ('regulates or regulated' relation)
Two or more Agents that act together as an Agent.
Group
Scope note: made separate paragraphs plus very few changes. Disjoint with: enriched.
Group is a kind of Agent. A Group has a socially recognized identity. Each member of the Group plays a particular role or roles (that is has a particular Position) in the coordinated activity of the Group. Corporate bodies and families are kinds of groups, though other kinds of groups are possible. For example, the “electorate” -- all of the voters in a given election. Complex, large groups may be subdivided into other groups.
Corresponds to RiC-E09 (Group Entity)
Inverse of 'is or was holder of intellectual property rights of' object property.
has or had intellectual property rights holder
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "intellectualPropertyRightsHeldBy").
RiC-R040i ('has or had intellectual property rights holder ' relation)
Date at which a Person was born.
birth date
Provided for usability reasons. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use Date classes for handling dates.
Data property specialized implementation of RiC-E18 (Date entity)
Connects a Record Resource to a copy of that Record Resource.
has copy
RiC-R012 ('has copy' relation)
Connects a Date to a Thing whose existence ended on that Date.
is end date of
RiC-R071 ('is end date of')
Connects a Group and at least another Group, when the first one as the second one(s) among its subdivisions.
Group Subdivision Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R005 and RiC-R005i relations
Used to qualify the state of a Relation (e. g. present, past, ongoing, unknown).
Relation state
Connects a Documentary Form Type and a Record Set whose some past or present Record or Record Part members have that Documentary Form Type.
is or was documentary form type of some members of
Object property added for handling the case where a Record Set is described as having all or some members that belong to some category (see RiC-CM 0.2 attributes section, #4.4 on Record Set, Record and Record Part attributes).
The functional role of a Person within a Group.
Position
Scope note: made separate paragraphs and updated. Disjoint with: enriched. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Position is a kind of Agent. Position is the intersection of a Person and a Group. Position exists independently of the Person that holds the Position within a Group. More than one Person may hold a Position. Position is commonly defined in a Mandate, often called a position description or job description. The Mandate may specify the work to be performed (Activity) as well as the competencies for performing the Activity. A Position is often given a Name. A Position may be tied to a project or to a set of tasks and thus have a defined duration. A Position may change over time, as the Group that establishes it changes over time. Position is not to be confused with Occupation or Activity. Within the records created by a Corporate Body, a Position may be used to identify the record sets resulting from activities performed by one or more persons holding the Position over time, without necessarily identifying or describing the Person or persons, or identifying which records were created by each Person.
Corresponds to RiC-E12 (Position entity)
Connects a Derivation Relation to one of the derived Instantiations
derivation relation has target
Connects a Temporal Relation to a Thing that precedes other Thing(s) in time.
temporal relation has source
The fundamental form of communication in which a Record is expressed and the human sense through which it is intended to be perceived.
Content Type
Scope note: added (quite the same as RiC-CM definition).
Should not be confused with Representation Type or Carrier Type of a related Instantiation since the form of communication can be independent of the representation or carrier, for example, a map (Content Type: cartographic image) can be represented as a sketch (Representation Type: graphic) or as a GIS-coded elements (Representation Type: computer).
Corresponds to RiC-A10 (Content Type attribute)
Inverse of 'has or had subevent' object property.
is or was subevent of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property URI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isSubEventOf").
RiC-R006i ('is or was subevent of' relation)
Inverse of 'has or had subdivision' object property.
is or was subdivision of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRIs (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isSubdivisionOf").
RiC-R005i ('is or was subdivision' relation)
Connects a Rule Relation to a Rule.
rule relation has source
Connects a Sequential Relation to a Thing that follows other Thing(s) in the sequence.
sequential relation has target
Information about the intellectual arrangement and composition of a Record Resource or the physical arrangement and composition of an Instantiation. For Record and Record Part, it encompasses information about the intellectual composition of the record, the presence of record parts and their functions. For Record Set, it encompasses information about the methodology or criteria used for arranging the Record Set members or Record members within the containing Record Set. For Instantiation, it may comprise information about the composition of the physical elements of the instantiation
structure
Text definition updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Use only if you cannot use the subproperties (particularly if the same free text is being used in your current metadata for describing the record resource and the instantiation structure).
Corresponds to RiC-A40 (Structure attribute)
Connects an Authority Relation to an Agent that has the authority
authority relation has source
Connects an Event to a Thing that results or resulted from the Event.
results or resulted in
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "resultsIn").
RiC-R061 ('results or resulted in' relation)
Connects a Record Resource to a Thing that is or was its main subject.
has or had main subject
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasMainSubject").
Use for specifying, for example, that a Record Set of type personal file has main subject some person, which would help end users to retrieve the main archival resources about this person.
RiC-R020 ('has or had main subject' relation)
Connects an Agent Relation to one of the involved Agents
agent relation connects
Connects a Management Relation to a Record Resource or Instantiation that is involved as a managed thing.
management relation has target
Connects a Group that is a subdivision, to a Group Subdivision Relation
group is target of group subdivision relation
Connects an Agent or Record Resource to a Legal Status which categorized or categorizes it.
has or had legal status
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasLegalStatus").
Connects a Person to another Person they have some knowledge of through time or space.
knows of
RiC-R050 ('knows of' relation)
Horizontal dimension of an entity.
width
Connects at least one Record Resource or an Instantiation to at least one Agent that creates or accumulates the Record Resource, receives it, or sends it.
Agent Origination Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R026 and RiC-R026i relations
Connects a Mandate to a Mandate Relation.
mandate is source of mandate relation
Connects an Agent to an Agent Relation
agent is connected to agent relation
Inverse of 'has or had participant' object property.
is or was participant in
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "involvedIn").
RiC-R058i ('is or was participant in' relation)
Chronological information associated with an entity that contributes to its identification and contextualization, related to a single point in time.
Single Date
Corresponds to RiC-E19 (SingleDate entity)
Categorization of a profession, trade, or craft pursued by a person in fulfilment of an Activity.
Occupation Type
scope note: added.
Occupation Type should not be confused with Position where, for example, an Agent with the Occupation Type “lawyer” holds the Position of “legal counsel” in an agency. Occupation Type is related to, but should not be confused with the domain or field of Activity (Actvitity Type), such as an archivist who works in the domain of archival science. Occupation Type is a kind of Demographic Group.
Corresponds to RiC-A30 (Occupation Type attribute)
Natural language expression of a Date.
expressed date
The Sunday before Christmas
October 24th, 1999
Corresponds to RiC-A19 (Expressed Date attribute)
Connects a Place (as associated to a Thing) to a Place Relation.
place is source of place relation
Connects two Places that geographically overlap or overlapped. This object property is symmetric.
overlaps or overlapped
changed the IRI, label, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "overlaps").
RiC-R078 ('overlaps or overlapped' relation)
Connects a Thing (that is associated with a Place) to a Place Relation.
thing is target of place relation
Connects a Record Set and a Legal Status that categorizes some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has or had some members with legal status
Inverse of 'has unit of measurement' object property
is unit of measurement of
Connects at least one Agent, and one or more Record Resource or Instantiation that the Agent holds.
Record Resource Holding Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R039 and RiC-039i relations
Connects a Person (as a parent) to a Child Relation.
person is source of child relation
Connects one of the Agents that created or accumulated the Record resource or Instantiation, to an Agent Origination Relation
agent is target of agent origination relation
Connects a Leadership Relation to a lead Group.
leadership relation has target
Connects an Event Relation to an Event
event relation has source
Inverse of 'has or had part' relation.
is or was part of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isPartOf").
RiC-R002i (is or was part of relation)
Connects a derived Instantiation to a Derivation Relation.
instantiation is target of derivation relation
Connects a Person to one of their children.
has child
changed the inverse property IRI.
RiC-R018 ('has child' relation)
Connects two Persons that have some type of family link, i.e. belong to the same family. This relation is symmetric.
has family association with
changed the IRI, label, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasFamilyLinkWith").
RiC-R047 ('has family association with' relation)
Connects an Event to one of a series of Events that constitute the original, broader, past or ongoing Event.
has or had subevent
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasSubEvent").
Since an Activity is a kind of Event, this Relation can also be used for Activity.
RiC-R006 ('has or had subevent' relation)
Inverse of 'is end date of' object property.
has end date
RiC-R071i ('has end date' relation)
Connects an Extent to a Record Resource or Instantiation
is extent of
Object property created along with the Extent class and its subclasses, in order to provide methods for handling extent accurately.
Connects a Group Subdivision Relation to the Group that has subdivisions
group subdivision relation has source
A name that is used for a Record Resource or a Rule
Title
Class implementation of a specialization of RiC-A28 (Name attribute)
Connects a controlling Agent to an Agent Control Relation
agent is source of agent control relation
Conditions that govern the existence or authority of an Agent or the performance of an Activity, or that contribute to the distinct characteristics of things created or managed by an Agent.
Rule
Scope note: made separate paragraphs and updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Updated the definition (rdfs:comment) and scope note, as they were recently changed in RiC-CM 0.2 full draft.
Rule can be related directly to Agent, Activity, or anything created or managed by agents, such as a Record Resource or Instantiation. A Rule may be unwritten or written or otherwise documented. Unwritten rules may include though are not limited to the following: social mores, customs, or community expectations. Written rules may include though are not limited to the following: constitutions, legislation, acts (legal), statutes, legal codes, ordinances, charters, mission statements, regulations, policies, procedures, instructions, codes of conduct or ethics, professional standards, work assignments or work plans. The source or sources of some Rules are external to the Agent (for example, expressed in elections, social mores, customs, community expectations, laws, regulations, standards and best practice codes), while others are expressed within the Agent’s immediate context (for example, policies, or written or verbal instructions). The evidence for identifying Rules may be found in their entirety in one documentary source (for example, a law or regulation) or may be found in two or more sources. Rule should not be confused with the one or more documentary sources that serve as evidence of its identity. A documentary source is a Record.
Corresponds to RiC-E16 (Rule entity)
Inverse of 'has or had subordinate' object property.
is or was subordinate to
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isHierarchicallyInferiorTo").
RiC-R045i ('is or was subordinate to' relation)
Connects a Person to a Spouse Relation.
person has spouse relation
Connects an Accumulation Relation to one of the accumulating Agents
accumulation relation has target
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Agent that it is addressed to.
has addressee
added a scope note
The identity of the addressee is (usually) evidenced by the Record Resource or Instantiation itself.
RiC-R032 ('has addressee' relation)
A definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Can be spacial units (cm, m), weigt (g, kg), time (s, h), storage (MB, TB) or more informal units used in the archival context like number of boxes, pages or words.
Unit Of Measurement
Class added in order to be able to handle units of measurement as full entities.
Qualifies the level of certitude of the accuracy of a Date, an Event or a Relation.
certainty
Corresponds to RiC-A06 (Certainty attribute)
International Council on Archives Records in Contexts Ontology (ICA RiC-O) version 0.2
Miia Herrala (National Archives of Finland), member of EGAD
Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia, USA), chair of EGAD
Tobias Wildi (Docuteam GmbH, Switzerland), member of EGAD
Aaron Rubinstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA), member of EGAD
Florence Clavaud (Archives nationales de France), member of EGAD, lead of EGAD RiC-O team
International Council on Archives Expert Group on Archival Description (ICA EGAD)
International Council on Archives
Copyright 2019-...., International Council on Archives (ICA)
RiC-O (Records in Contexts-Ontology) is an OWL ontology for describing archival record resources. As the second part of Records in Contexts standard, it is a formal representation of Records in Contexts Conceptual Model (RiC-CM). The current official version is v0.2; it is compliant with RiC-CM v0.2 full draft, that will be published in February or March 2021, and that is slightly different from RiC-CM v0.2 preview, that was published in December 2019. RiC-O provides a generic vocabulary and formal rules for creating RDF datasets (or generating them from existing archival metadata) that describe in a consistent way any kind of archival record resource. It can support publishing RDF datasets as Linked Data, querying them using SPARQL, and making inferences using the logic of the ontology.
Introduction RiC-O (Records in Contexts-Ontology) is an OWL ontology for describing archival record resources. As the second part of Records in Contexts standard, it is a formal representation of Records in Contexts Conceptual Model (RiC-CM). This version, which is v0.2, is the current official release. It is compliant with RiC-CM v0.2, that will be published soon after the release of RiC-O v0.2. The following diagram shows the main RiC-CM v0.2 entities and a few relations between them: RiC-O design principles The following design principles were followed when developing RiC-O. RiC-O is a domain or reference ontology. It provides a generic vocabulary and formal rules for creating RDF datasets (or generating them from existing archival metadata) that describe in a consistent way any kind of archival record resource. It can support publishing RDF datasets as Linked Data, querying them using SPARQL, and making inferences using the logic of the ontology. While some projects have built some specific ontologies for describing archives, at this time no generic domain ontology exists for the specific needs of the archival community. This is why EGAD decided to develop RiC-O as the second part of RiC standard. Apart this first, main target, RiC-O also can help archival institutions and engineers to design and develop other technical implementations of RiC-CM that represent record resources and their layers of contexts as oriented, interconnected graphs. Of course, other technical implementations may be developed later on, including XML models, or (hopefully) new versions of EAD and EAC-CPF XML models. As RiC-O is a generic, domain ontology, it does not address by itself every specific need or expectation that may occur in every archival institution or project. It is rather a high level framework and a project can either limit itself to the use of a selection of components, or can add more subcomponents where needed. As a domain ontology, RiC-O, at this stage at least, does not borrow any component from other existing ontologies (such as the cultural heritage models – IFLA-LRM and CIDOC-CRM, PREMIS, or PROV-O). It should therefore be easier, for an archival institution or archival project, to understand, implement and maintain RiC-O within its system. Later on, RiC-O will be aligned with these existing models. This is of course essential for interconnecting RDF datasets conforming to RiC-O with other datasets, or for using parts of RiC-O in other contexts than the archival or records management realm. RiC-O must be immediately usable. This is a key feature for a new model. In particular, it is very important that existing archival metadata, that are created or generated in current information systems, can be converted to RDF conforming to RiC-O, without losing any data, structural or partially implicit information. What is at stake here is that metadata conforming to the previous existing ICA standards can be processed successfully. During the ongoing development process, a lot of successful testing has been made, using XML/EAD finding aids and XML/EAC-CPF authority records, that have been converted to RDF datasets, either by hand or using scripts. A conversion software is being developed and will soon be available. While some existing metadata sets may have a very fine level of granularity and accuracy, already using, for example, controlled vocabularies, or describing curation events separately, often these metadata don’t have the very precise structure that RiC-CM recommends. Even then, such a conversion process should remain possible. In order to allow this, RiC-O sometimes provides several methods for representing information (as described below). From this point of view, the current official version of RiC-O may be considered a transitional ontology, in which some components may be deprecated later on. The usability of a model also depends on its documentation. That’s why the current official release has been fully documented (this documentation will be continously improved). RiC-O will also soon be acompanied with examples (RDF datasets). Some tutorials should also be written, and EGAD will organize practical workshops. RiC-O has to provide a flexible framework. This is a very important principle too. It is related with the usability principle quoted above. Moreover, archival description is flexible by essence. It is quite commonly noted that the level of granularity of information varies from one finding aid to another (or from one authority record to another), or even within the same finding aid. Some series or agents are described summarily because little is known about them and there is little time for extensive research, while other series, even records, or agents are described in detail; some relations (e.g. that relating to provenance) may be described without any detail while others may be thoroughly documented, as ISAAR(CPF) and EAC-CPF allow it. Being generally flexible, for an OWL ontology, depends first on the polyhierarchical systems of classes and properties it provides. A superproperty or superclass, more general or generic than its subproperties or subclasses, must exist and be available for handling information, while at the same time more accurate subcomponents must be there for handling more accurate description. Also, RiC-O should provide several methods for expressing whether relations are well attested and certain, or are more vague, as well as direct and short paths between entities alongside more complex ones. RiC-O opens new potential for archival description. This means that Linked Data tools and interfaces should enable end users to go through RDF/RiC-O graphs, to query them using SPARQL in an efficient way and to consult archival metadata and their contexts in new ways. As an example, an end user should be able to ask « What are (according to your dataset) the corporate bodies that succeeded to this given entity from its end of existence, by 1840, to nowadays (as concerns this given activity) ?» or « tell me what instantiations of this photograph exist? » « what are the existing copies of this original charter?», and get a list of these entities. In other words, institutions or projects that make the effort to implement RiC-O will get new insight into the content and context of their archives that wasn't visible with the existing ICA-standards. It should be even more interesting if you can infer new assertions from the RDF datasets you built, and of course link your datasets to other ressources outside of your institution. RiC-O should be extensible. Institutions are free to extend the ontology by adding new subclasses or subproperties if needed. RiC-O has also the potential to be useable in other contexts than purely archival ones. This implies that hierarchies of classes and properties are defined and that mappings are developed with other ontologies as mentioned above. It may also imply that RiC-O should provide “hooks” enabling connections with, for example, existing SKOS vocabularies. Understanding RiC-O: a quick overview of some features From RiC-CM to RiC-O In the system of classes of RiC-O, for each RiC-CM entity, you can find a corresponding class. These classes are organized according to the same hierarchy as in RiC-CM. In some projects, you may need very few of them (e.g. Agent, Record Resource and Activity only), while in other ones, you may need more (e.g. Corporate Body and Person; Record; Place; Provenance Relation). Certain classes only exist in RiC-O and not in RiC-CM. These additional classes address special needs: some correspond to RiC-CM attributes, when it may be considered necessary to handle them as full entities. This is the case for Type and its subclasses, that correspond to RiC-CM attributes that contain controlled values, and that can help to articulate RiC-O with external RDF resources like SKOS vocabularies; and also for Language, Name and Identifier, that can be considered as full entities and as key linking nodes in a RDF graph. All these classes have been grouped under a Concept class. some classes have been added in order to provide a more accurate definition and model for some entities. Place thus comes along with a Physical Location class, and with a Coordinates class. A Place is considered both a geographical and historical entity. As a historical entity, among other features, it has a history, and may be preceded or succeeded by other Places. A Place also may have zero to many Physical Location through time (for instance, its boundaries, if it is an administrative area or a country, may change). Each Physical Location may be connected to zero to many Coordinates. This model is quite close to the Linked Places Format (https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-places). Another example of such an addition is the Proxy class, that represents (stands for) a Record Resource as it exists in a specific Record Set. finally, a system of classes helps to implement the Relations section of RiC-CM. While these relations also are represented as simple, binary object properties (e.g. ‘hasProvenance’ that corresponds to RiC-R026 relation), you may need to assign different attributes to a relation, e.g. a date, certainty or description, as it is already possible, and quite often done, in a XML/EAC-CPF file. One of the standard available methods for representing such a documented relation in RDF for now is to use a class. RDF* and SPARQL* specification, which is being developed by the W3C RDF-DEV Community Group, provides a far simpler method (allowing to consider a triple as the subject or object of another triple; see https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/) and is already being used by some tools; however it is not yet a W3C standard. Thus, for example, in RiC-O an AgentOriginationRelation class exists. This class may connect one to many Agents to one to many created or accumulated Record Resources or Instantiations, and has some specific object properties (certainty, date, description, source). Back to the ‘hasProvenance’ object property, let us add that it is formally defined in RiC-O, using OWL 2 property chain axiom (see https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-new-features/, as a ‘shortcut’ for the longer path ‘recordResourceOrInstantiationIsSourceOfAgentOriginationRelation/agentOriginationRelationHasTarget’, where the intermediate node is an instance of Agent Origination Relation: <owl:propertyChainAxiom rdf:parseType="Collection"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#recordResourceOrInstantiationIsSourceOfAgentOriginationRelation"/> <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#agentOriginationRelationHasTarget"/> </owl:propertyChainAxiom> A triplestore, with the appropriate configuration, may thus infer the direct ‘hasProvenance’ assertion from this long path. Most of the datatype properties in RiC-O correspond to RiC-CM attributes that contain free, plain text. See for example rico:descriptiveNote, rico:history and rico:scopeAndContent. In addition to these datatype properties, the Name and Identifier RiC-CM attributes also have corresponding classes (subclasses of rico:Appellation). A resource may have several Identifiers and each comes with different attributes (e.g. archival reference code, system number, digital object identifier), in this case the identifiers will be modelled in a class. In many simpler usecases it's sufficent to just use the identifier datatype property, typically for the archival reference code. The Location RiC-CM attribute also has a rico:Physical Location corresponding class (for users who want to use Place, Physical Location and Coordinates for handling places). As already said too, every RiC-CM attribute that has ‘controlled value’ or ‘rule-based’ as a schema value, has a class as corresponding component in RiC-O. For these CM attributes that correspond to a RiC-O class, as it is necessary to provide an immediately usable ontology, two supplementary datatype properties exist that allow not to use the classes, at least for a while, if you want to implement RiC-O and create RiC-O/RDF datasets from existing archival metadata without being able to handle URIs for the information you have. For example, you may not be able to handle and maintain URIs for some controlled values you use in EAD finding aids for carrier types: maybe your information system does not use a vocabulary for this, and you cannot for a while consider these carrier types as full entities. Nevertheless you want to produce RiC-O datasets where every piece of information is kept, and you want to avoid blank nodes. If RiC-O would only provide the Carrier Type class, it would be an issue for you. So RiC-O provides a rico:type datatype property, with range rdfs:literal, which allows you to move forward. Therefore, for the RiC-CM *Type attributes, you have a corresponding rico:type datatype property. For RiC-CM Coordinates attribute, you also have rico:geographicalCoordinates datatype property. These datatype properties have a skos:scopeNote which says (for example) "Provided for usability reasons. May be made deprecated or removed later on. Use only if you don't use Physical Location and Coordinates classes with Place." The same key design principle (RiC-O must be immediately usable) led us to define some datatype properties that would enable users to use RiC-O in simple usecases where they do not want to consider dates and rules as full entities. Thus, there of course is Date and Rule classes in RiC-O (since there are Date and Rule entities in RiC-CM). And you also have 'date' datatype properties; plus a rico:ruleFollowed datatype property. The same analysis led us to keep the rico:history datatype property in RiC-O (same as RiC-CM history attribute), while RiC-CM and RiC-O also provide the Event class, and using a series of Events may of course be a better method, easier to query, link and display, than simply using a history prose discourse. The two methods may be used in parallel within the same dataset by an institution that, for example, would decide to emphasize only the accession, appraisal and description events among the whole history of Record resources. These datatype properties have the same kind of skos:scopeNote as above. Finally, we have introduced a few datatype properties that do not correspond to any RiC-CM attribute. Some are superproperties, and thus group datatype properties (rico:physicalOrLogicalExtent, with rico:carrierExtent, rico:instantiationExtent and rico:recordResourceExtent as subproperties ; rico:textualValue, with rico:expressedDate and rico:normalizedValue as subproperties; rico:measure (and its subproperties); rico:referenceSystem, superproperty of rico:dateStandard (and of other datatype properties that do not exist in RiC-CM.) Some are simply more specific properties : rico:accrualStatus ; rico:recordResourceStructure and rico:instantiationStructure, subproperties of rico:structure ; rico:title (subproperty of rico:name) ; rico:altitude, rico:latitude, rico:longitude (subproperties of rico:measure), rico:geodesicSystem and rico:altimetricSystem (subproperties of rico:referenceSystem). In order to connect all the classes created, a significant number of object properties have been defined. While their 'flat' list is a long one, they are grouped hierarchically, so that one can use the upper to intermediate level ones for simplicity sake, or choose the most accurate and expressive ones, or extend the system adding a subproperty easily. It is expected that, in most use cases, a subset of these properties only will be needed. As already said above, some of the object properties are also formally defined as shortcuts. Finally, let us mention that we added to RiC-O six individuals, considering that they would address current and frequent needs: Two (FindingAid and AuthorityRecord) are instances of both RiC-O Documentary Form Type and SKOS Concept. They can be used for categorizing Records, finding aids and authority records being considered as Records. A Record that would have ‘Finding Aid’ as a Documentary Form Type, can be connected to one to many Record Resources using 'rico:describes’ object property. Four (Fonds, Series, File, and Collection) are both instances of the Record Set Type class, and of skos:Concept. Their definition is taken from the ISAD(G) glossary. They can be used for categorizing Record Sets. In the future, we can imagine that many other categories of the kind will be defined by the archival community, forming at least rich SKOS (hopefully multilingual) vocabularies. Considering the concepts thus defined as being also instances of some RiC-O classes may be of great interest for producing a richer description (for example, an instance of the Documentary Form Type class may have a history and some temporal relations to other documentary form types). RiC-O documentation and annotation properties Each class or property has at least an English label (rdfs:label) and description (rdfs:comment). Some have a skos:scopeNote or a skos:example. When a RiC-O class or property corresponds in a way to a RiC-CM component, its description and scope note are, either the same as, or derived from, their definition and scope note in RiC-CM. We have created two annotation properties, subproperties of rdfs:comment, for handling: Information about the corresponding RiC-CM component when appliable (rico:RiCCMCorrespondingComponent). Various phrasings are used in this property depending on the rule applied for defining the RiC-CM component. Information, most often in prose text for now, about possible mappings with other models or ontologies (rico:closeTo, rarely used in this 0.1 version)). Finally, in this official 0.2 release, any change in the definition of a class or property, since December 2019, is documented using a skos:changeNote. Next steps The following is a non exhaustive list of known issues, topics or tasks on which EGAD has begun to work and will continue to work in the next months: providing more examples of known implementations of RiC-O in different institutions and contexts. The goal is to show different practices on how RiC-O is being implemented. We have begun to release such examples in the public RiC-O repository on GitHub. One can also have a look at the Projects and tools page on RiC-O website. finishing the system of relations (where some subclasses are still missing) assessing, and changing in some cases, the tense of the verbs in some object properties (e.g. for the properties that correspond to some RiC-CM relations). This has been done, following RiC-CM v0.2 updates, where many relations have changed name so that they can be used for recording both past and present situations. articulating the Event and Activity classes, and the Relation system of classes improving the names of object properties. This has been done, following RiC-CM v0.2 updates and applying a few naming rules, so that, for example, the same verb is used for naming a relation and the inverse relation when it exists. adding suggestions of mappings (in rico:closeTo) and OWL equivalences between some classes or properties and components in other models (among which - this is not an exhaustive list- CIDOC-CRM, IFLA-LRM, PREMIS, PROV-O, Wikidata and Schema.org) documenting RiC-O in French and Spanish providing users with some SPARQL constructs for inferring.
Version 0.2 - 2021-02-12.
A first beta version of RiC-O was developed in 2017 and used by the National Archives of France for building a proof of concept (https://piaaf.demo.logilab.fr). EGAD then continued to develop the ontology, and this process entered a very active period in 2019, while RiC-CM v0.2 was being designed and edited. From December 2018 to November 2019, about 65 persons that had applied to a call for reviewers, received successive beta versions of RiC-O and sent a few first comments. While EGAD RiC-O team could not answer to each of these comments, each was taken into account. In particular, it was decided to prepare and publish, along with RiC-O v0.1, a preview of RiC-CM v0.2. The goal of the preview release of RiC-CM v0.2 is to provide context for the classes, properties, and overall logic of RiC-O in support of the ontology’s first public release. RiC-O v0.1 was released on December 2019, 12. The Git repository that is used for handling RiC-O was made public in March 2020 (see https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-O), so that creating issues or comments, forking and making pull requests was made possible. In 2020, RiC-CM v0.2 preview was significantly updated: the textual definitions of many entities were changed, as well as the specifications of many attributes; and a lot of relations changed name, in order to take into account past situations and to adopt some simple naming rules. As a consequence, RiC-O had to be updated in order to remain compliant with RiC-CM. These changes could not be made before the end of 2020, when RiC-CM could be considered stable. EGAD also decided to make other changes in RiC-O, among which the most important are mentioned in bold in the following list. RiC-O 0.2 results from these updates and changes. It has been released a few weeks before RiC-CM 0.2 full draft, and is fully compliant with it. The following is a list of the changes made to RiC-O (this current version being RiC-O v0.2) since the release of RiC-O v0.1 in December 2019. The most important changes are mentioned in bold. Note that from October 2020 any change on a component is described and dated in the specification of this component, using skos:changeNote. Fixed a bug in the documentation of rico:PerformanceRelation and its object properties. Renamed the file and updated the ontology metadata. OccupationType made a subclass of ActivityType. Changed the domain and range of rico:hasOriginal and rico:hasDraft (it is now Record or Record Part); same for their inverse properties. Fixed a bug in the definition of rico:provenanceRelationHasTarget (removed the owl:propertyChainAxiom). Changed the name of rico:leadBy object property (grammatical mistake) to rico:ledBy. 2020, October 19: Added a vann:preferredNamespaceUri and vann:preferredNamespacePrefix property to the ontology metadata 2020, October 19 : created RuleType and IdentifierType classes, along with the associated object properties. 2020, October 23: updated the text definition and/or scope note of 33 classes, that correspond to RiC-CM entities or attributes, in order to make them compliant with RiC-CM v0.2. Added a few owl:disjointWith properties. 2020, November 1: updated the text definition and/or scope note of, and/or added examples for, 27 datatype properties, that correspond to RiC-CM attributes, in order to make them compliant with RiC-CM v0.2. 2020, November 20: created new classes and properties for handling an accurate description of instantation and record resource extent: Extent, Carrier Extent, Instantiation Extent, Record Resource Extent, Unit of measurement, Extent Type classes; unit of measurement and quantity datatype properties; has Extent, is Extent Of, has Extent Type, is Extent Type Of, has Unit Of Measurement, is Unit of Measurement Of, object properties. 2020, December 28: changed the IRIs and definition of RecordResourceState class and of the associated object properties; changed the domain or ranges and textual definitions of properties associated with Language, LegalStatus, ContentType, DocumentaryFormType; added new object properties for handling the description of some or all members of Record Set. Added the corresponding change notes. 2020, December 29: deleted the isSuperiorTo and isInferiorTo object properties, as well as the AgentSubordinationRelation and its object properties (as the RiC-R043 relation has been removed from RiC-CM 0.2). Added the hasAuthor/isAuthorOf object properties, plus an AuthorshipRelation class and its specific object properties (as the RiC-R079 relation has been added to RiC-CM 0.2). Added the corresponding change notes. 2021, January 22: changed the IRI, label, and/or superproperties or inverse property IRI, and/or textual definition, and/or domain or range, of 152 object properties. Among them, changed the IRI of 119 object properties; 85 correspond to RiC-CM relations whose name has been changed in RiC-CM 0.2. Added the corresponding change notes. 2021, January 27: added an rdfs:isDefinedBy to the specification of each RiC-O class and property and made the last changes to the ontology metadata (mainly in the history note). 2021, February 1: last small changes in the ontology metadata (mainly in the abstract). 2021, February 1: 'hasOrHadPhysicalLocation' made a subproperty of 'isPlaceAssociatedWith'; 'isOrWasPhysicalLocationOf' made a subproperty of 'isAssociatedWithPlace'. 2021, February 1: reordered everything with Protégé without changing the content 2021, February 4: checked and fixed the language of the examples. 2021, February 8: removed a few Restriction classes (rdfs:subClassOf/owl:Restriction) in the definition of classes; completed the textual definition and scope note of the Relation class. 2021, February 9: added a link to RiC-CM 0.2 diagram overview in the introduction; fixed some typos. 2021, February 11: added an @xml:lang='en' on a few labels; updated the definition (rdfs:comment) and scope note of the Rule class, as they were recently changed in RiC-CM 0.2 full draft.
Connects at least one Agent, to at least another Agent, when the first one(s) control(s) in a way the activities of the second one(s).
Agent Control Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R041 and RiC-R041i relations
Connects a Type (a category) to a Thing that it categorizes or categorized.
is or was category of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isCategoryOf").
Summary of the development of an entity, since its origin until present time.
history
Domains updated. Examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Nacido en Barbastro en 1892, donde realizó sus primeros estudios con los escolapios. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Zaragoza, aprobó las oposiciones al cuerpo nacional de notarios…(Person)
The manuscripts are part of the collections of Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford, that were brought by Parliament and transferred to the British Museum in 1753. Those materials were then separated into this collection and those for Harley Charters and Harley Rolls and became part of the collections of the British Library in 1972. (Record Set)
El primer sorteo de lotería se celebró el 13 de mayo de 1771, siendo desarrollado por la Real Lotería General de Nueva España… (Activity)
History can alternatively be represented by a series of related Events.
Corresponds to RiC-A21 (History attribute)
Connects a Type (a category) to a Type Relation.
type is source of type relation
Connects a Name to a Thing that it designated or designates.
is or was name of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isNameOf").
Connects an Agent to a Record Resource or Instantiation that the Agent holds or held.
is or was holder of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI and text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isHolderOf").
RiC-R039 ('is or was holder of' relation)
Connects a Content Type to a Record or Record Part whose content it categorizes.
is content type of
changed the text definition and super property IRI.
Connects a Record Set and a Legal Status that categorizes all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has of had all members with legal status
Connects an Ownership Relation to a Thing that is owned.
owner ship relation has target
Connects a Content Type and a Record Set whose some past or present Record or Record Part members have that Content Type.
is or was content type of some members of
Connects a Place Relation to the Place concerned.
place relation has source
series
Documents arranged in accordance with a filing system or maintained as a unit because they result from the same accumulation or filing process, or the same activity; have a particular form; or because of some other relationship arising out of their creation, receipt, or use. A series is also known as a records series. (From ICA ISAD(G))
Connects a Thing to an Appellation that is or was used for designating it.
has or had appellation
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasAppellation").
Connects at least one Person to at least another Person, when the first has/have descendant the second one(s).
Descendance Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R017 and RiC-R017i relations
Connects an Authorship Relation to one of the author Person, Group or Position.
authorship relation has target
Created following the addition of RiC-R079 relation in RiC-CM 0.2
The extent of the content of a Record Resource.
Record Resource Extent
Changed a bit the definition and added change notes.
Class added in order to handle an accurate description of a record resource extent
Countable characteristics of the content of the Record Resource expressed as a quantity.
Class implementation of RiC-A35 (Record Resource extent attribute)
The doing of something for some human purpose.
Activity
Activity is a kind of Event. Activity is specifically used to designate purposeful human activity. Activity may be understood from two perspectives. First it can be understood as leading to an end. The end is the purpose of the Activity, or why the Activity is performed. Second, it can be understood in terms of the processes that lead to achieving the end, how the end is realized through coordinated actions. Purpose and process are complementary understandings of Activity. Together the two perspectives address why the Activity is performed, the expected ends or outcomes; and how the Activity fulfills the purpose. While activity has an intended end, it also has unintended consequences and results, or side-effects. By and large, these may not be the focus of the description, but they are, unquestionably, context. |In a corporate or government context an Activity may also be called a 'function'. An Activity exists in a specific social and cultural context, and within that context is subject to change over time. An Activity may be composed of other Activities.
Corresponds to RiC-E15 (Activity entity)
Connects a Person to a Knowing Relation.
person has knowing relation
Categorization of a Family.
Family Type
Comment: slighty changed.
Family Type encompasses a wide variety of familial groups related by consanguinity, affinity, cohabitation or other social conventions.
Corresponds to RiC-A20 (Family Type attribute)
Connects a Record Set Type to a Record Set that it categorizes.
is record set type of
changed the super property IRI.
Connects an Activity that is performed to a Performance Relation
activity is source of performance relation
A human being with a social identity or persona.
Person
Removed one Restriction.
Person is a kind of Agent. Most commonly, a human being (biological person) has a single coeval social identity or persona. In everyday discourse, this is the “real person.” Less common though not rare, over the course of a lifetime, personae in addition to the coeval (or “original”) persona may be associated with the human being. Such “alternative personae” are most often created by the original person for specific purposes. Under some circumstances, an alternative persona might eclipse or replace the original person (Mark Twain eclipsing Samuel Clemens; John Wayne eclipsing Marion Mitchell Morrison), that is, the social (shared) alternative identity becomes the predominate identity. Less common is whentwo or more persons collaborate to create a shared persona. Persona shared by two or more Persons constitute a kind of Group. Within the archival context, the original Person generally will be the focus of the description, with alternative personae noted. Exceptionally, an alternative persona may displace the coeval persona.s.
Corresponds to RiC-E08 (Person entity)
Connects a Thing to a Sequential Relation, when this Thing precedes other Thing(s) in the sequence.
thing is source of sequential relation
Number of physical units and/or physical dimensions of the carrier of a record resource instantiation. Various carriers, depending on specific needs, may have more than one relevant dimension. In some cases, indicating the number of physical units may be sufficient, while in other case, relevant dimensions should be used in order to characterize the carrier.
carrier extent
Text definition and scope note updated. Examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
2 pieces of parchment, 30 x 50 cm and 32,5 x 49 cm
3GB USB key
1 page
17 x 34.5 cm
For electronic resources, it indicates the size of storage capacity (disk, tape, film etc.). Carrier Extent should not be confused with Record Resource Extent or Instantiation Extent. For a given Record Resource, the Instantiation Extent may vary, based on format, density of information on the carrier, etc. For example, 1500 words (Record Resource Extent) may have Instantiation Extent 3kb as a Word document and 5kb as a PDF file, and instantiations may be represented on a CD of 700mb (Carrier Extent). Use if you don't use CarrierExtent class and its properties for handling such information.
Corresponds to RiC-A04 (Carrier Extent attribute)
Connects an Instantiation to a Functional Equivalence Relation
instantiation is connected to functional equivalence relation
Connects an Identifier and an Identifier Type that categorizes it.
has identifier type
Object property added along with IdentifierType class and isIdentifierTypeOf object property.
changed the superproperty IRI.
Connects an Agent to a Work Relation
agent has work relation
Connects a Knowing Of Relation to a 'knowing of' Person (a Person who has some knowledge of another one.)
knowing of relation has source
Connects a Group to a Person that is or was a member of that Group.
has or had member
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasMember").
RiC-R055 ('has or had member' relation)
Connects at least one Record to at least one Person, Group or Position that is responsible for conceiving and formulating the information contained in the Record.
Authorship Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R079 and RiC-R079i relations
Categorization of the method used in the representation of information on the Instantiation.
Production Technique Type
Comment: updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Class implementation of RiC-A33 (Production Technique attribute)
Connects at least one Agent to at least another Agent, when the first one is hierarchically superior to the second one.
Agent Hierarchical Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R045 and RiC-R045i relations
Categorization of physical material in or on which information is represented.
Carrier Type
Scope note: updated (quite the same as RiC-CM definition). Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Carrier Type information is essential for assessing authenticity, conservation needs and the availability, access and use of Record Resources. Carrier Type determines the environmental conditions of storage and the prerequisites and possible ways to access and use of the records. Should not be confused with Content Type, that categorizes a Record Resource, nor with Representation Type that categorizes an Instantiation. The Carrier Type depends on the media type that is required to access the records and is independent of its content
Corresponds to RiC-A05 (Carrier Type attribute)
A delimitation of the physical territory of a place. This datatype property is used to describe basic human-readable text such as an address, a cadastral reference, or less precise information found in a record.
location
« Montreal »
25 rue Saint-Denis à Paris
near the church
Use only if you don't use PhysicalLocation class with Place. Use the geographicalCoordinates property, or the Coordinates class, record the geographical coordinates of the Place.s
Corresponds to RiC-A27 (Location attribute)
Connects a Place Type to a Place that is or was categorized by it.
is or was place type of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isPlaceTypeOf").
Connects an Agent Control Relation to one of the controlling Agents
agent control relation has source
Connects a Legal Status to an Agent or Record Resource that it categorizes.
is or was legal status of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isLegalStatusOf").
Connects a Legal Status to an Agent, Record or Record Part that it categorized or categorizes.
Connects a Date to a Person who died on that Date.
is death date of
RiC-R072 ('is death date of' relation)
Connects a Position to Group Relation to a Position (that exists in a Group).
position to group relation has source
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (on which some intellectual property rights are held) to an Intellectual Property Rights Relation.
record resource or instantiation is target of intellectual property rights relation
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is managed by an Agent) to a Management Relation.
record resource or instantiation is target of management relation
Categorization of the extent that is being measured
Extent Type
Added to specify the dimension that is being measured
Connects a Place to an Agent that has or had jurisdiction over the Place.
is or was jurisdiction of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isJurisdictionOf").
RiC-R076 ('is or was jurisdiction of' relation)
Connects a Place to a Thing that Place is associated with the existence and lifecycle of.
is place associated with
RiC-R074 ('is place associated with' relation)
Connects an Appellation Relation to one of the designated Things
appellation relation has target
Inverse of 'has addressee' object property.
is addressee of
RiC-032i ('is addressee of' relation)
Connects an Identifier to a Thing that it identified or identifies.
is or was identifier of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "identifies").
Connects a Content Type and a Record Set whose all past or present Record or Record Part members have that Content Type.
is or was content type of all members of
Any idea, material thing, or event within the realm of human experience.
Thing
made separate paragraphs in the scope note.
Includes all RiC entities as well as any concept, material thing, or event that may be the subject of a Record Resource or associated with an Activity. Examples of entities not explicitly addressed in RiC includes but is not limited to the following: abstract concepts; cultural movements, named periods and events; named things, objects and works; legendary, mythical or fictitious figures, characters or beings.
Corresponds to RiC-E01 (Thing entity)
Inverse of 'has successor' object property.
is successor of
changed the inverse property IRI and the text definition.
RiC-R016i (is successor of)
Connects two Places that are or were geographically adjacent. This is a symmetric object property.
is or was adjacent to
changed the IRI, label, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isAdjacentTo").
RiC-R077 ('is or was adjacent to' relation)
Connects at least one Thing to at least one Thing that follows it in some sequence.
Sequential Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R008 and RiC-R008i relations
Connects an Event Type to an Event that is categorizes.
is event type of
Inverse of 'has descendant' object property.
has ancestor
changed the superproperty IRIs.
RiC-R017i (has ancestor relation)
Chronological information associated with an entity that contributes to its identification and contextualization, that implies or explicitly states a start date and end date.
Date Range
Corresponds to RiC-E20 (Date Range entity)
Categorization of a person according to characteristics such as age, gender, education, place of origin, ethnic/cultural identification, religion, etc.
Demographic Group
Comment: updated. Scope note: updated and made several paragraphs. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Removed the Restriction.
Can be extended with any number of subclasses, e.g. Age or Religion. A demographic group may be defined as a subset of the general population. Individuals may belong to several demographic groups
Corresponds to RiC-A15 (Demographic Group attribute)
Connects a Rule Relation to a Thing (that is associated to a Rule).
rule relation has target
Connects an Authority Relation to a Thing over which the Authority is performed
authority relation has target
Connects an Appellation to an Appellation Relation
appellation is source of appellation relation
Connects at least one Group, Person or Position, and at least a Thing that these Agent(s) own(s).
Ownership Relation
Among other probably more rare use cases for archival description, can be used between agents (a person owns a corporate body, a corporate body owns a mechanism), or between agents and record resources
Class implementation of RiC-R037 and RiC-R037i relations
Connects at least one Activity to at least one Agent, when the first is performed by the second one(s).
Performance Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R060 and RiC-R060i relations
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation to an Extent
has extent
Inverse of 'precedesOrPreceded' object property.
follows or followed
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "follows").
RiC-R008i ('follows or followed' relation)
Connects two Persons that are siblings. This relation is symmetric.
has sibling
RiC-R048 ('has sibling' relation)
Connects a Thing to a Whole Part Relation, when this Thing is Part of another Thing.
thing is target of whole part relation
Connects a Record Set and a Record State that categorizes all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has of had all members with record state
Connects an Activity to an Agent Temporal Relation (when the Activity is transferred from an Agent to another one) or a Mandate Relation (the Mandate assigns the Activity to the Agent or defines it).
activity is context of relation
Connects a Record State and a Record Set whose some past or present Record or Record Part members have that Record State.
is or was record state of some members of
The top level relation class. It connects at least two Things. An instance of a Relation may have some datatype and object properties : a descriptive note (datatype property) like any Thing ; certainty (for 'certain', 'quite probable', 'uncertain','unknown'); a date (use either the date datatype property or the Date class and isAssociatedWithDate object property ; a state (relationState) ; a location (use Place class and isAssociatedWithPlace object property) ; a source of information that can be used as an evidence for it (use either source datatype property or hasSource object property).
Relation
Removed the restrictions; completed the definition and scope note.
Use when direct, binary object properties are not enough, e.g. when you need to record a date, a location or any other descriptive element for a relation (till RDF-Star becomes a W3C recommendation and provides a lighter method for doing so); or when the relation invloves more than two entities (n-ary relation). It is recommended to use the subclasses of the Relation class.
Connects a Person to another Person who is or was their student.
has or had teacher
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasTeacher").
RiC-R053 ('has or had teacher' relation)
Connects a Language and a Record Set whose all present or past Record or Record Part members use that Language.
is or was language of all members of
Connects a Thing to a Type that categorizes or categorized it.
has or had category
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "belongsToCategory").
When it exists, specifies the identifier and name of RiC-CM component that corresponds to the annotated class or property.
RiC-CM corresponding component
Connects an Activity to an Activity Type that categorizes it.
has activity type
Connects an Instantiation of a Record Resource to the Record Resource to Instantiation Relation.
instantiation is target of record resource to instantiation relation
Connects an Agent Origination Relation to one of the creating or accumulating Agents
agent origination relation has target
Connects an Agent to a Record Resource or Instantiation on which the Agent has or had some intellectual property rights.
is or was holder of intellectual property rights of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasIntellectualPropertyRightsOn").
RiC-R040 ('is or was holder of intellectual property rights of' relation)
Date until an Appellation was used.
used to date
An organized group of persons that act together as an Agent, and that has a recognized legal or social status.
Corporate Body
scope note: updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Corporate Body is a kind of Group.
Corresponds to RiC-E11 (Corporate Body entity)
Connects one of the accumulating Agents to an Accumulation Relation
agent is target of accumulation relation
Connects an Agent Temporal Relation or Mandate Relation, to an Activity that is, either transferred from an Agent to another one, or assigned by a Mandate to an Agent.
as concerns activity
Connects a Legal Status and a Record Set whose all past or present Record or Record Part members have that Legal Status.
is or was legal status of all members of
Connects an n-ary Relation to a Thing that is its source.
relation has source
Connects an Event Relation to an associated Thing
event relation has target
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is accumulated) to an Accumulation Relation.
record resource or instantiation is source of accumulation relation
Descriptive information about an entity that is not otherwise addressed.
descriptive note
Corresponds to RiC-A16 (Descriptive Note attribute)
Inverse of 'received by' object property.
is receiver of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "receives").
RiC-R029i ('is receiver of' relation)
Connects a Record to a Record Part that is or was a component of that Record.
has or had constituent
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasConstituent").
RiC-R003 ('has or had constituent' relation)
Connects a Person (as a student) to a Teaching Relation.
person is target of teaching relation
Categorization of a Corporate Body.
Corporate Body Type
Corresponds to RiC-A12 (Corporate Body Type attribute)
Connects a Rule to a Rule Relation.
rule is source of rule relation
Connects one of the hierarchically inferior Agents to an Agent Hierarchical Relation
agent is target of agent hierarchical relation
A Record, Record Set, or Record Part produced or acquired and retained by an Agent in the course of Activity.
Record Resource
Scope note: made separate paragraphs plus very few changes.
Producing a record resource may imply either its newly creation or a reuse of previous existing information by combination, rearrangement, selecting, reformatting etc. Records, Record Sets, and Record Parts are all evidence of the activities of an Agent. More than one Agent may be involved in the creation of a Record Resource. The role of the Agent in creating the Record Resource may take different forms, for example, authoring of an individual record, accumulating a set of records, or forming a set of records. Though a Record, Record Set, and Record Part, under most circumstances, may be easily distinguished from one another, frequently identifying the boundary of each and how the “bounded information regions” interrelate, may present particular challenges. Documentary Forms provide the rules governing many Records, providing criteria for identifying its boundary, and identifying its essential Record Parts. Many Records, though, do not have well-established documentary forms, particularly electronic records, where it may be difficult to determine whether individual elements represented in separate bitstreams are record parts, records, or record sets. For example, is a photograph represented independently in a bitstream embedded in a text document a Record, or a Record Part ? Or is the same photograph attached to an email, maintaining its independent representation, a Record or a Record Part? When information is grouped for some purpose, for example, zip or tar “file compression” for saving storage space, presents a further challenge. One file comprises multiple bitstreams subjected to techniques that remove bits that can be losslessly recovered when decompressed. Under what circumstances is such a compressed bitstream a Record or a Record Set? Determining when an information object is a Record, Record Part, or Record Set is based on perspective and judgement exercised in a particular context. In one context, the Agent describing an information object may designate it a Record, while another Agent in a different context may designate it a Record Part. Both designations are supported by RiC, and the significance of the difference for users of the records is ameliorated by the fact that attributes and relations employed in describing each of the record entities are shared.
Corresponds to RiC-E02 (Record Resource entity)
Date at which an entity was last updated.
last modification date
Connects a Membership Relation to the Position occupied by the member Person(s).
membership with position
Information inscribed at least once by any method on any physical carrier in any persistent, recoverable form by an Agent in the course of life or work Activity.
Record
Scope note: updated and made several paragraphs. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Record is a kind of Record Resource. A Record must have or have had at least one Instantiation. A Record may have more than one Instantiation. A re-instantiation of the record may be considered the same record or a new record, depending on the context and of the functions that record serves. Such information may serve a variety of purposes, though it always documents or is evidence of Activity.
Corresponds to RiC-E04 (Record entity)
Connects a Thing (that is designated by an Appellation) to an Appellation Relation.
thing is target of appellation relation
Connects a Legal Status and a Record Set whose some past or present Record or Record Part members have that Legal Status.
is or was legal status of some members of
Information about the intellectual arrangement and composition of a Record Resource. For Record and Record Part, it encompasses information about the intellectual composition of the record, the presence of record parts and their functions. For Record Set, it encompasses information about the methodology or criteria used for arranging the Record Set members or Record members within the containing Record Set
Record Resource structure
The series have the files arranged according to the alphabetical order of the places concerned.
Inside each file, the records are arranged chronologically.
The database has 3 related tables: names, addresses, and passport numbers.
The record has 2 appendixes, comprising a full account of the income from car taxes and real estate taxes.
Specialization of RiC-A40 (Structure attribute)
Connects a Type Relation to the Type (that categorizes the involved Thing(s)).
type relation has source
Connects a Thing to the Date when it was last modified.
was last updated at date
Connects at least one Position, and a Group, when the first one(s) exist(s) in/is defined within the second one.
Position to Group Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R056 and RiC-R056i relations
Connects two Things that are considered equivalent.
is equivalent to
Information about the physical features of the Instantiation. Includes information about the physical nature and condition such as conservation status.
physical characteristics
watermarked
emulsion flaking
carrier heavily foxed
British Library binding
Corresponds to RiC-A31 (Physical Characteristics attribute)
A word, number, letter, symbol, or any combination of these used to uniquely identify or reference an individual instance of an entity within a specific information domain. Includes Global Persistent Identifiers (globally unique and persistently resolvable identifier for the entity) and/or Local Identifiers.
identifier
SNAC ID: 83847206
BUD-01-F002 [example of a classification number from a corporate file plan]
NAS1/A/1.1 [example of local identifier for a Record]
F 1204 [example of a local identifier for a Record Set assigned by a repository]
Ark ID: w6tz44ht
Use only if you don't use Identifier class for handling identifiers. Within a given domain (a closed system), identifiers are used to uniquely reference instances of an entity. Identifiers are instruments of control that facilitate management of the entities within the domain. The formulation of identifiers commonly is based on rules.
Corresponds to RiC-A22 (Identifier attribute)
Connects a Person (who occupies a Position) to a Position Holding Relation.
person is source of position holding relation
Connects a Record Set and a Documentary Form Type that categorizes some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has or had some members with documentary form type
Connects an Agent to a Record Resource or Instantiation that the Agent managed or manages.
is or was manager of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isManagerOf").
RiC-R038 ('is or was manager of' relation)
Inverse of 'is or was controller of' object property.
has or had controller
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "controlledBy").
RiC-R041i ('has or had controller' relation)
Connects a Place Relation to a Thing that is associated to the Place.
place relation has target
Connects the original version of a Record to a copy or a later version.
is original of
There may be zero to many intermediate Records, ignored or unknown, between the two connected Records
RiC-R010 (is original of relation)
Connects an Activity Documentation Relation to one of the documented Activities
activity documentation relation has target
The extent, quantity, amount, or degree of an entity, as determined by measurement or calculation.
measure
Inverse of 'is or was jurisdiction of' object property.
has or had jurisdiction
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasJurisdiction").
RiC-R076i ('has or had jurisdiction' relation)
Connects a Physical Location to a Place, when it is or was its location.
is or was physical location of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isPhysicalLocationOf").
Property made a subproperty of 'isAssociatedWithPlace".
Connects at least one Agent, to at least another Agent, that succeeds it chronologically for, for instance, fullfilling some functions or performing some activities.
Agent Temporal Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R016 and RiC-016i relations
Categorization of a Rule.
Rule Type
Class added along with hasRuleType and isRuleTypeOf object properties.
For example, for rules that can be applied to record resources : access rule, use rule, etc.
Connects at least one Agent, and at least one Thing over which the Agent has some authority.
Authority Relation
Would probably rarely be used as such (use its sub-categories)
Class implementation of RiC-R036 and RiC-R036i relations
Inverse of 'is draft of' object property.
has draft
RiC-011i ('has draft' relation)
One or more records that are associated by categorization and/or physical aggregation by the creator or other Agent.
Record Set
comment: updated. Scope note: updated and made several paragraphs. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Record Set is a kind of Record Resource. The Record members in a Record Set may physically reside together, though physical proximity is not essential. In a particular context, an Agent (e.g. administrator, records manager, archivist, end-user, etc.) may select the Record members of a Record Set based on a shared attribute or attributes, or a shared Relation or Relations. The grouping of the Records serves a purpose or purposes specific to the context of the Agent. All Record members of a Record Set may share the attribute of having been accumulated by the same Agent, or all share the same Documentary Form Type and are created over time by the same Activity. A Record Set may represent the act of classifying the Records in accordance with a formal classification scheme that may be based on Activity, subject, organizational structure, or other criteria; an act of archival arrangement (e.g. based on common provenance); or some other selection and grouping that fulfils a particular purpose or purposes (e.g. a classification that reflects or supports the purposes of a researcher). By exception, some Records are brought together based on their not belonging in the context of selection to other designated groups: a ‘Miscellaneous’ series, for example. A Record Set accumulated by an Agent in the course of life or work Activity should be kept in a manner that preserves context and evidential value. Records Sets may also contain other Records Sets. Both a Record Set and a Record may simultaneously be a member of more than one Record Set, and over the course of its existence, a Record Set or Record may be a member of an indeterminate number of Record Sets in an indeterminate number of contexts. Record Sets and Records contained within a Record Set may be ordered into a sequence based on a common property or relation, or common properties or relations (e.g. alphabetical by Agent or related Place name; chronological order by an allocated Date); or some other criterion (e.g. an imposed order by relevance).
Corresponds to RiC-E03 (Record Set entity)
Connects a Whole Part Relation to a Thing that is a part.
whole part relation has target
Connects a Record Resource or Relation to a Record Resource or Agent that is used as a source of information for identifying or describing it.
has source
Connects a Thing (that follows other Thing(s) in a sequence) to a Sequential Relation.
thing is target of sequential relation
Inverse of 'is or was location of' object property.
has or had location
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI and textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasLocation").
RiC-R075i ('has or had location' relation)
Bounded, named geographic area or region.
Place
A Place may be a jurisdiction, a manmade structure, or a natural feature. A manmade structure or natural feature may also be a jurisdiction. A Place may be referenced to a Physical Location on the earth, or (if you don't want to use the PhysicalLocation class) directly to geographic coordinates. Both jurisdictions and natural features are historical entities. A Place thus may have begin and end dates, and changing boundaries that result from human or natural events. A Jurisdiction is the bounded geographic area within which an Agent has the authority to perform specified activities constrained by rules.
Corresponds to RiC-E22 (Place entity)
Inverse of 'documents' object property.
documented by
changed the inverse property IRI, the superproperty IRI and the corresponding CML component name
RiC-R033i ('documented by' relation)
Inverse of 'is or was owner of' object property.
has or had owner
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "ownedBy").
RiC-R037i ('has or had owner' relation)
Connects a Record Set and a Content Type that categorizes all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has of had all members with content type
A Proxy represents (stands for) a Record Resource as it exists in a specific Record Set.
Proxy
Useful for handling in RDF the sequencing of records or records sets in the context of a Record set. A Record Resource has only one Proxy in the context of one specific Record Set. It may have many Proxies simultaneously or through time.
ORE Proxy (http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/Proxy)
Connects a Record Resource to one of its Instantiations.
has instantiation
RiC-R025 ('has instantiation' relation)
Connects a Teaching Relation to a Person (who is a teacher).
teaching relation has source
Connects a Person (as a teacher) to a Teaching Relation.
person is source of teaching relation
Connects a Person to an Occupation Type that categorized or categorizes his/her occupation (profession, trade or craft).
has or had occupation of type
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasOccupationOfType").
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to an Agent that is either responsible for all or some of the content of the Record Resource or is a contributor to the genesis or production of an Instantiation.
has creator
changed the IRI and label (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "createdBy").
Covers the definition of author in diplomatics, and any contribution to the intellectual content of a Record Resource.
RiC-R027 ('has creator' relation)
Connects an Agent Control Relation to one of the controlled Agents
agent control relation has target
Connects a Mandate Relation to an Agent that assigns the Mandate.
authorizing agent
Connects a Place to one of its past or present Physical Location.
has or had physical location
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasPhysicalLocation").
Property made a subproperty of 'isPlaceAssociatedWith".
Vertical dimension of an entity.
height
Connects a Family to a Family Type that categorizes it.
has family type
An annotation property for recording a possible mapping to a component in another model or ontology
close to
Connects at least two Persons, when they have some family link, i.e. belong to the same family.
Family Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R047 and RiC-R047i relations
Connects a Person (as a descendant) to a Descendance Relation.
person is target of descendance relation
Connects a Person (of which another Person has some knowledge) to a Knowing Of Relation.
person is target of knowing of relation
Connects a Record Resource to a Thing that it describes.
describes or described
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "describes").
Can be used, among other situations, for specifying that some finding aid (a Record that has Documentary Form Type Finding Aid) describes some Record Set.
RiC-R021 (describes or described)
Connects an Agent to a Record Resource that it published.
isPublisherOf
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "publishes").
Connects a Position to Group Relation to a Group (in which a Position exists).
position to group relation has target
Connects at least one Thing to at least one Thing that follows it in chronological order.
Temporal Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R009 and RiC-R009i relations
Connects an Agent that assigns the Mandate, to a Mandate Relation.
is authorizing agent in mandate relation
Used system of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined, sometimes along with multiyear cycles.
calendar
Specialization of RiC-A14 (Date Standard attribute)
Connects a Position to a Group in which that Position exists or existed, or that is defined by that Group�s organizational structure.
exists or existed in
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "existsIn").
RiC-R056 ('exists or existed in' relation)
Connects an Agent Temporal Relation to one of the predecessor Agents
agent temporal relation has source
Date at which something began.
beginning date
Inverse of 'has or had constituent' object property.
is or was constituent of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isConstituentOf").
RiC-R003i ('is or was constituent of' relation)
Connects a Thing to one of its past or present Identifiers.
has or had identifier
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "identifiedBy").
Inverse of 'has creator' object property.
is creator of
change the inverse property IRI.
RiC-R027i ('is creator of 'relation')
Categorization of the document with respect to its extrinsic and intrinsic elements that together communicate its content, administrative and documentary context, and authority
Documentary Form Type
Comment: updated. Scope note: made several paragraphs. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Documentary Form Type plays an important role in determining the type of information a Record may comprise, its status of perfection, and its authenticity and reliability. Documentary form types exist in a specific social and cultural context, and within that context, are subject to change over time
Corresponds to RiC-A17 (Documentary Form Type attribute)
Connects a Record Resource Genetic Relation to one of the associated Record Resources.
record resource genetic relation connects
Delegation of authority by an Agent to another Agent to perform an Activity.
Mandate
Mandate is a kind of Rule. A Mandate confers the authority or competencies of Agents to perform a specified Activity. In addition to assigning an Activity and delegating authority to perform the Activity to an Agent, a Mandate commonly limits the Place (jurisdiction) and Date (time period) within which an Agent may perform the Activity (where and when). Mandates exist in a specific social and cultural context, and within that context are subject to change over time. While a Mandate may be tacit, in whole or part, it may be explicitly expressed in a variety of documentary sources (for example, constitutions, legislation, (legal) acts, statutes, legal codes, ordinances, charges, charters, or mission statements). The evidence for identifying a Mandate may be found in its entirety in one documentary source (for example, a law or regulation), or may be found in two or more sources. A Mandate should not be confused with the one or more documentary sources that serve as evidence of its identity. A documentary source is a Record.
Corresponds to RiC-E17 (Mandate entity)
Connects a Record Resource to a Record Resource Relation.
record resource is connected to record resource relation
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is created) to a Creation Relation.
record resource or instantiation is source of creation relation
Connects a Proxy to the Record Set in which it stands for (represents) another Record Resource.
proxy in
Longitudinal and latitudinal information of a Place.
Coordinates
Removed the cardinality Restrictions when the range is a datatype property
Class implementation of RiC-A11 (Coordinates attribute)
Date of the publication of a Record Resource.
publication date
Countable characteristics of the content of an entity expressed as a quantity.
Extent
Class added together with three subclasses and hasExtent and isExtentOf Object properties
Physical or logical extent of a resource
A status defined by law.
Legal Status
Corresponds to RiC-A26 (Legal Status attribute)
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Agent that collects it intentionally (is a collector).
has collector
changed the IRI, label, inverse property and super property IRI, text definition, domain (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "collectedBy").
RiC-R030 ('has collector' relation)
Date at which an entity was created.
creation date
Connects an Extent to an Extent Type that categorizes what is being measured.
has extent type
Object property added along with the Extent Type class.
A broad categorization of the type of Record Set.
Record Set Type
Four instances of Record Set Type are included for now in RiC-O; they also are instances of skos:Concept and, as such, part of a SKOS vocabulary. Record Set Type may also be used to categorize types of Record Set that have not traditionally been considered archival, e.g. search result list.
Corresponds to RiC-A36 (Record Set Type attribute)
fonds
The whole of the records, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family, or corporate body in the course of that creator's activities and functions. (From ICA ISAD(G))
Connects a Record Resource to a Thing that is or was its subject.
has or had subject
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasSubject").
RiC-R019 ('has or had subject' relation)
Connects a Corporate Body Type to a Corporate Body that it categorizes or categorized.
is or was corporate body type of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isCorporateBodyTypeOf").
Date of the modification of an entity.
modification date
Connects a Thing to a Whole Part Relation, when this Thing has Part other Thing(s).
thing is source of whole part relation
Connects a Mandate to the Agent that the Mandate gives the authority or competencies to act.
authorizes
fixed the CM corresponding component name.
RiC-R067 ('authorizes' relation)
Connects an Instantiation to at least one Instantiation that is derived from it.
Derivation Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R014 and RiR014i relations
Inverse of 'is or was holder of' object property.
has or had holder
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "heldBy").
RiC-R039i ('has or had holder' relation)
Connects an Agent to another Agent it controls or controlled via Activities, i.e. controls by function.
is or was controller of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "controls").
RiC-R041 ('is or was controller of' relation)
Connects at least one Agent, and at least one Record Resource or Instantiation that the Agent manages.
Management Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R038 and RiC-R038i relations
A process or system created by a Person or Group that performs an Activity.
Mechanism
scope note: made separate paragraphs. Disjoint with: enriched.
Mechanism is a kind of Agent. A Mechanism may have both mechanical and software components, or may be exclusively software. A Mechanism acts in the world producing physical or social effects, and frequently generates or modifies Records.
Corresponds to RiC-E13 (Mechanism entity)
connects a Rule Type to a Rule that it categorized or categorizes.
is or was rule type of
Object property added along with RuleType class and hasRuleType object property.
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property URI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isRuleTypeOf").
Inverse of the 'regulates or regulated' object property.
is or was regulated by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "regulatedBy").
RiC-R063i ('is or was regulated by' relation)
Connects a Derivation Relation to the Instantiation from which one or more Instantiations is derived.
derivation relation has source
Framework or standard used to represent an information.
reference system
Inverse of 'is original of' object property.
has original
RiC-R010i (is original of relation)
Connects a Place Name to a Place that was or is designated by it.
is or was place name of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isPlaceNameOf").
Connects an n-ary Relation to a Thing that is its target.
relation has target
Something that happens in time and space.
Event
Scope note: made separate paragraphs and some changes.
An event may be natural, human, or a combination of natural and human. Events have temporal and spatial boundaries. An event may actively involve some agent(s) and affect any entity. An event may be discrete, happening at a specific moment in time, or may occur over an extended period of time. Events may have events as parts, and events may precede or follow one another. Multiple agents may participate in the same event, and in different roles.
Corresponds to RiC-E14 (Event entity)
LODE Event class (http://linkedevents.org/ontology/#term-Event)
The relation between an Appellation and at least one Thing that the Appellation designates.
Appellation Relation
Connects an Event to a Thing that is associated with the existence and lifecycle of the Event.
is event associated with
RiC-R057 ('is event associated with' relation)
Connects a Sequential Relation to a Thing that precedes other Thing(s) in the sequence.
sequential relation has source
Connects a creator Agent to a Creation Relation
agent is target of creation relation
Connects at least two Persons, when they correspond to each other.
Correspondence Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R052 and Ri052i relations
Date at which an Appellation was first used.
used from date
Connects a Membership Relation to the Group that has member(s).
membership relation has source
A label, title or term designating a Place in order to make it distinguishable from other similar entities.
Place Name
The most generic object property. Connects an Thing to any other Thing This is a symmetric object property.
is related to
RiC-R001 (is related to relation)
A superclass for any category of some thing. A type characterizes an entity.
Type
Connects an Agent Hierarchical Relation to one of the hierarchically superior Agents
agent hierarchical relation has source
Inverse of 'occupies or occupied' object property.
is or was occupied by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "occupiedBy").
RiC-R054i ('is or was occupied by' relation)
Connects Knowing Relation to any known Person involved.
knowing relation connects
Connects an instance of Coordinates to a Physical Location it locates or located on earth, according to some reference system.
is or was coordinates of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isCoordinatesOf").
Connects at least one Mandate, and at least one Agent, when the first gives the second one the authority or competencies to act. May also involve one to many Activities that the Mandate(s) assign(s) to the Agent(s).
Mandate Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R067 and RiC-R067i relations
Connects an n-ary Relation to a Thing that is a secondary, contextual entity during the existence of the Relation.
relation has context
The secondary entity may be, for instance, a Position or a Role Type.
Categorization of the method of recording the content type of a Record Resource.
Representation Type
Comment and scope note: updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Representation Type can be unmediated (which allows humans to receive the message communicated without an intermediation of a device) and mediated (which needs a device to decode the message). A lot of contemporary mediated types are digital. Each Representation Type may present specific features: bit rate for audio, resolution for digital images, encoding format for video etc. Depending of the type, properties may thus be needed to describe their characteristics. Not be confused with Content Type or Carrier Type since the form of representation can be independent of the communication or carrier.
Corresponds to RiC-A37 (Representation Type attribute)
Two or more persons related by birth, or through marriage, adoption, civil union, or other social conventions that bind them together as a socially recognized familial group.
Family
Family is a kind of Group. “Family” is used here as a general term that encompasses a wide variety of familial groups. Other types of familial groups include Dynasty, Clan, House, Tribe and others. Though family may be a recognized legal group in specific contexts, the term may also be used for groups that are socially recognized as families. A family may be a group of persons related either by consanguinity or affinity or cohabitation or other social conventions. In some context, a Family may be legally recognized as Corporate Body. For example, certain North American peoples (tribes) retain self-government rights and have jurisdiction over defined tribal lands.
Corresponds to RiC-E10 (Family entity)
A label, title or term designating an Agent in order to make it distinguishable from other similar entities.
Agent Name
Connects an owner Agent to an Ownership Relation
agent is source of ownership relation
Connects a Work Relation to an Agent.
work relation connects
Connects two Agents. This object property is symmetric.
is agent associated with agent
Use to connect two Agents only if it is not possible to be more accurate and use a narrower Agent to Agent relation, e.g. ‘has work relation with’.
RiC-R044 ('is agent associated with agent' relation)
Connects a Documentary Form Type to a Record or Record Part that it categorizes.
is documentary form type of
Distance in degrees east or west of a prime meridian.
longitude
Property of the Coordinates class. If you don't use this class, use geographicalCoordinates property, a property of Place class.
Terms and circumstances affecting the availability of a Record Resource for consultation. Such conditions may originate in laws, regulations and policies, including those pertaining to privacy and security concerns or restrictions; they may concern a specific Instantiation of a Record Resource, for example, conditions that require preservation treatment; or they may specify the software or hardware necessary to access the Instantiation.
conditions of access
Acceso libre a través de los terminales de consulta
Recognita software, min. version 3.0, is needed in order to open the file.
the Archives cannot provide VHS reader to access the content of the tape.
closed as awaiting conservation treatment
open
closed under data protection legislation
This property provides information about the accessibility of a Record Resource, as well as the physical, technical or legal limitations that exist for providing access to it.
Corresponds to RiC-A08 (Conditions of Access attribute)
Part of a Record with discrete information content that contributes to the Record's physical or intellectual completeness.
Record Part
comment: updated. Scope note: made several paragraphs. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Record Part is a kind of Record Resource. A Record Part may itself have Record Parts.
Corresponds to RiC-E05 (Record Part entity)
Connects an Extent Type to an Extent that it categorizes.
is extent type of
Added a rdfs:comment.
A Person, or Group, or an entity created by a Person or Group (Mechanism), or a Position, that acts in the world.
Agent
removed the Restrictions
An Agent may have one or more identities; an identity is a constellation of properties or relations that together “identify” the Agent. A Person or Group commonly has one identity, though each also may have one or more alternative identities. Such alternative identities may be shared by more than one Person or Group. Alternative identities include but are not limited to pseudonyms, heteronyms, DBA (Doing Business As), and trade identities. An alternative identity should not be confused with a Position in a Group, for example, presidents, prime ministers, governors, popes, royalty, or bishops. Nor should an alternative identity be confused with a variant name or identifier of the same identity. Agent also includes entities created by a Person or Group that act on behalf of the creating Agent in an autonomous or semi-autonomous manner. Examples of a Mechanism include software agents, robots, and space and underwater probes that generate data (records) in the course of Activity assigned to and in conformance with the instructions given to them by the creating Person or Group.
Corresponds to RiC-E07 (Agent entity)
Inverse of 'affects or affected' object property.
is or was affected by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition and corresponding CM component (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "affectedBy").
RiC-R059i ('is or was affected by' relation)
Connects the Group that has at least a subdivision, to a Group Subdivision Relation
group is source of group subdivision relation
Inverse of 'has or had main subject' object property.
is or was main subject of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, super property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isMainSubjectOf").
RiC-R020i (is or was main subject of)
The quantity of information content as human experienced represented in the Record Resource. The method and precision of expressing the quantity of information represented in a Record Resource will vary by the kind of Record Resource being described as well as by processing economy constraints. For record sets, quantity may be expressed as number of records, or, for analogue records in particular, by the physical storage dimensions of the Record members. For individual records or record parts, quantity may be expressed in more precise terms. Use if you don't use RecordResourceExtent class and its properties for handling such information.
Record Resource extent
Updated the scope note, as a RecordResourceExtent class has been created.
6 photographs
34 poems
2 films
6 maps
2.065.735 characters
1,500 words
3 minutes and 24 seconds
The number, size or duration of the information content unit(s) remains the same even if the information is instantiated in various carriers. For example, a file of 1500 words (Record Resource Extent) may have Instantiation Extent 3kb as a Word document and 5kb as a PDF file, and instantiations may be represented on a CD of 700mb (Carrier Extent). Use if you don't use RecordResourceExtent class and its properties for handling such information.
Corresponds to RiC-A35 (Record Resource extent attribute)
Connects a Record Resource or an Agent to a Record Resource or Relation, when the first is used as a source of information for identifying or describing the second one.
is source of
Inverse of 'describes or described' object property.
is or was described by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "describedBy").
RiC-R021i ('is or was described by' relation)
Connects an Instantiation to a Production Technique Type that categorizes its production technique.
has production technique type
Inverse of 'has copy' object property.
is copy of
RiC-R012i ('is copy of' relation)
Connects an Agent to a Performance Relation
agent is target of performance relation
Date at which a Person died.
death date
Connects a Provenance Relation to a Record Resource or Instantiation.
provenance relation has source
Inverse of 'has or had member' object property.
is or was member of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isMemberOf").
RiC-R055i ('is or was member of' relation)
Connects a Person to one of their descendants.
has descendant
changed the superproperties IRIs.
RiC-R017 ('has descendant' relation)
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Agent that sends it
has sender
RiC-R031 ('has sender' relation)
Connects one of the controlled Agents to an Agent Control Relation
agent is target of agent control relation
Connects a Thing (that is owned by a Group, a Person or a Position) to an Ownership Relation.
thing is target of ownership relation
Information about the physical arrangement and composition of an Instantiation.
Instantiation structure
Text definition fixed. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Connects a Record or Record Part to its Documentary Form Type.
has documentary form type
Connects an Agent to another Agent that succeeds it chronologically.
has successor
changed the IRI and label (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isAntecedentOf").
There may be zero to many intermediate Agents , ignored or unknown, between the two connected Agents. Can be used when there is a transfer of function from the first Agent to the second Agent.
RIC-R016 ('has successor' relation)
Connects an Instantiation to a Representation Type that categorizes its representation type.
has representation type
Connects a Teaching Relation to a Person (who is a student).
teaching relation has target
Connects a Person, Group or Position to an Authorship Relation.
agent is target of authorship relation
Inverse of 'is place associated with' object property.
is associated with place
RiC-R074i ('is associated with place' relation)
Connects a Proxy to the Record Resource it stands for in the specific context of a Record Set.
proxy for
Non-contiguous single dates or date ranges.
Date Set
Primarily used in the description of Record Sets to describe dates of member Records
Corresponds to RiC-E21 (Date Set entity)
Connects two Persons that correspond or have corresponded with each other. This relation is symmetric.
has or had correspondent
changed the IRI, label, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasCorrespondent").
RiC-R052 ('has or had correspondent' relation)
Connects a Thing to a Thing that follows or followed it in some sequence.
precedes or preceded
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "precedes").
The relation does not specify by itself what criteria are used for ordering the sequence. There may actually be zero to many intermediate Entities, ignored or unkown, in the sequence between the two connected Things. Can be used, for example, for specifying that some Record 'precedes' (has next) some Record within a Record Set.
RiC-R008 ('precedes or preceded' relation)
Connects a mandated Agent to a Mandate Relation
agent is target of mandate relation
Documentary Form Types
International Coucil on Archives Expert Group on Archival Description (ICA EGAD)
International Council on Archives Records in Contexts Vocabulary for Documentary Form Types
A vocabulary that includes documentary form types
Connects an Appellation to the Date from which it was used.
was used from date
Connects a category (a Type) and at least one Thing that belongs to this category.
Type Relation
may be useful at least for some types (e.g. demographic group)
Connects at least one Record Resource or Instantiation to at least one Agent, when the Agent is either responsible for all or some of the content of the Record Resource, or is a contributor to the genesis or production of the Instantiation.
Creation Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R027 and RiC-R027i relations
Connects a Record Set and a Category (Type) to which all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set belong.
has or had all members with category
Connects a Date to a Thing that the Date is associated with the existence and lifecycle of.
is date associated with
RiC-R068 ('is date associated with' relation)
Connects an Authorship Relation to one of the Records involved in the relation.
authorship relation has source
Connects a Thing to a Thing that follows it in chronological order.
precedes in time
changed the superproperty IRI
There may actually be zero to many intermediate Entities, ignored or unknown, in the chronological sequence between the two connected Entities.
RiC-R009 ('precedes in time' relation)
Connects an Agent Temporal Relation to one of the successor Agents
agent temporal relation has target
Connects the Group (in which a Position exists) to a Position To Group Relation
group is target of position to group relation
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is held by an Agent) to a Record Resource Holding Relation.
record resource or instantiation is target of record resource holding relation
Connects a Person (who has some knowledge of another one) to a Knowing Of Relation.
person is source of knowing of relation
Connects a Record Resource Holding Relation to an Agent (as the holder of a Record Resource or Instantiation).
record resource holding relation has source
Description of evidences that the Record Resource or Instantiation is what it purports to be, was created or sent by the said Agent, at the said time and has not been tampered or corrupted.
authenticity note
The electronic signature validity cannot by assessed, but the content was not modified from the moment of signing.
The record bears no signature.
The record is digitally signed by the Notary.
The record bears signatures and it was preserved.
The charter is missing the seal of the King.
The timestamp exists but cannot be verified.
The whole collection consists of copies of the charters issued by Vlad the Impaler.
For electronic records, it may include results from automated means of checking the validity of signatures and timestamp.
Corresponds to RiC-A03 (Authenticity Note attribute)
Inverse of 'contains or contained' object property.
is or was contained by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "containedBy").
RiC-R007i ('is or was contained by' relation)
Connects at least two Instantiations which may be considered as equivalent.
Functional Equivalence Relation
Use for Instantiations which, from some point of view, in some context and for some users at least, may be considered as equivalent. This equivalence is usually based upon the fact that the Instantiations have at least the same intellectual content (they instantiate the same Record Resource).
Class implementation of RiC-R035 and RiC-R035i relations
Connects an Agent thas has the authority, to an Authority Relation
agent is source of authority relation
Connects an Instantiation to a version it has been migrated to.
migrated into
changed the IRI, label and inverse property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isMigratedIntoInstantiation").
Use for digital instantiations.
RiC-R015 ('migrated into' relation)
Connects a Category (Type) and a Record Set whose some present or past Record or Record Part members belong to that Category.
is or was category of some members of
Connects a Date to a Person that was born on that Date.
is birth date of
RiC-R070 ('is birth date of' relation)
A term, number or alphanumeric string that is usually taken from an external classification vocabulary or scheme that qualifies the Record Resource.
classification
human resource management
financial affairs
student registration
digitized items
No further statement is made here about the nature of the qualifier, nor about the relation it has with the Record Resource or with the management of the Record Resource. The value of this property may in turn be used as a criterion for identifying the qualified Record Resource as a member of a Record Set.
Corresponds to RiC-A07 (Classification attribute)
Connects a Creation Relation to one of the creator Agents
creation relation has target
Date
Scope note: made separate paragraphs.
Date includes both single dates, a date range, or a set of non-contiguous single dates or date ranges. A date may be represented in natural language, based on a digital standard, or both. Digital standard dates will typically be based on ISO 8601, or Extended Date-Time Format (EDTF).
Corresponds to RiC-E18 (Date entity)
Connects a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is created or accumulated by an Agent, or documents an Activity) to a Provenance Relation.
record resource or instantiation is source of provenance relation
A word, number, letter, symbol, or any combination of these used to uniquely identify or reference an individual instance of an entity within a specific information domain.
Identifier
Class implementation of RiC-A22 (Identifier attribute) (see also the identifier data property)
Inverse of 'migrated into' object property.
migrated from
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "createdByMigrationFromInstantiation").
RiC-R015i ('migrated from' relation)
Connects a Place to one of its past or present names.
has or had place name
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasPlaceName").
Inverse of 'is birth date of' object property
has birth date
RiC-R070i ('has birth date' relation)
Inverse of 'has accumulator' object property.
is accumulator of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition and corresponding CM component (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "accumulates").
RiC-R028i ('is accumulator of' relation)
quantity
Added a scope note.
Datatype property created along with unitOfMeasurement, Extent and UnitOfMeasurement classes, in order to provide methods for handling extent accurately.
Use if you use the Extent class and its properties for handling an accurate description of the extent of a resource..
Connects the Group (that has one to many members) to a Membership Relation
group is source of membership relation
Connects a hierarchically superior Agent to an Agent Hierarchical Relation
agent is source of agent hierarchical relation
Inverse of 'has or had authority over' object property.
is or was under authority of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isUnderAuthorityOf").
RiC-R036i ('is or was under authority of' relation)
Connects an Instantiation and at least another Instantiation, when the first is migrated into the second one(s).
Migration Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R015 and RiC-R015i relations
Connects an Agent and (one of) its present or past Agent Name.
has or had agent name
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasAgentName").
Connects an Appellation Relation to the concerned Appellation
appellation relation has source
Categorization of an Identifier.
Identifier Type
Class added along with hasIdentifierType and isIdentifierTypeOf object properties.
For example, 'old identifier' ; 'ISNI' (for a person or corporate body), etc.
Connects a Correspondence Relation to one of the Persons involved
correspondence relation connects
Connects a draft to the final version of a Record.
is draft of
RiC-R011 (is draft of relation)
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to the Activity that generates the Record Resource or Instantiation.
documents
changed the IRI, label, superproperty IRI, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isDocumentationOf").
RiC-R033 ('documents' relation)
Connects a Thing (that is under authority of an Agent) to an Authority Relation.
thing is target of authority relation
Method used in the representation of information on the Instantiation.
production technique
Examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
handwriting
engraving
optical recording
magnetic recording
Use only if you have free text or don't have a controlled vocabulary for production techniques (in this case, use the ProductionTechniqueType class)
Corresponds to RiC-A33 (Production Technique attribute)
Connects an Event to a Thing on which the Event has or had some significant impact.
affects or affected
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition and corresponding CM component (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "affects").
RiC-R059 ('affects or affected' relation)
Inverse of 'results or resulted in' object property.
results or resulted from
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "resultsFrom").
RiC-R061i ('results or resulted from' relation)
Connects a manager Agent to a Management Relation
agent is source of management relation
Connects at least one Rule to at least one Thing, when it is associated with existence and lifecycle of the Thing.
Rule Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R062 and RiC-R062i relations
Connects an Instantiation to one of its present or past component instantiations.
has or had component
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasComponent").
RiC-R004 ('has or had component' relation)
Connects an Instantiation which results from a migration, to a Migration Relation.
instantiation is target of migration relation
Connects a Rule to an Agent that enforces or enforced the Rule.
is or was enforced by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "enforcedBy").
RiC-R066 ('is or was enforced by' relation)
Connects a Rule to a Record Resource that expresses or expressed the Rule.
is or was expressed by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "expressedBy").
RiC-R064 ('is or was expressed by' relation)
Connects a Thing (that is a secondary, contextual entity during the existence of the Relation) to a n-ary Relation.
thing is context of relation
Inverse of 'is or was leader of' object property.
has or had leader
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "ledBy").
RiC-R042i ('has or had leader' relation)
Connects a Physical Location to its past or present coordinates in a reference system.
has coordinates
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasCoordinates").
Connects a Record Set and a Category (Type) to which some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set belong.
has or had some members with category
Connects at least two instantiations
Instantiation to Instantiation Relation
Connects a Membership Relation to a Person who is involved as a member.
membership relation has target
Connects an Agent having the intellectual property rights, to an Intellectual Property Rights Relation
agent is source of intellectual property rights relation
Connects a Record State and a Record Set whose all past or present Record or Record Part members have that Record State.
is or was record state of all members of
Connects an Agent Hierarchical Relation to one of the hierarchically inferior Agents
agent hierarchical relation has target
Connects a Child Relation to a child Person
child relation has target
Connects a Date to an Appellation, when it is the date till which the Appellation was used.
is to use date of
Connects a Person to a Correspondence Relation.
person has correspondence relation
Inverse of 'has author' object property.
is author of
RiC-R079i ('is author of' relation)
Inverse of 'is event associated with' object property.
is associated with event
RiC-R057i ('is associated with event' relation)
Connects a Family Relation to a Person.
family relation connects
Connects a Person to a Position they occupy or occupied.
occupies or occupied
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "occupies").
RiC-R054 ('occupies or occupied' relation)
Connects an Event to an Event Type which categorizes it.
has event type
Connects a Thing (that is categorized by a Type) to a Type Relation.
thing is target of type relation
Connects a Place to a Place Type that categorized or categorizes it.
has or had place type
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasPlaceType").
Inverse of 'is or was manager of' object property.
has or had manager
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "managedBy").
RiC-R038i ('is or was managed by' relation)
Connects a Performance Relation to a performed Activity.
performance relation has source
Connects at least two Persons, when they are siblings.
Sibling Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R048 and048i relations RiC-
Inverse of 'issued by' object property.
is responsible for issuing
RiC-R065i ('is responsible for issuing' relation)
Connects a Record State to a Record or Record Part whose state it categorizes.
is record state of
Changed the IRI, label, textual definition and range (Record Resource removed, replaced by Record or Record Part).
Inverse of 'is rule associated with' object property.
is associated with rule
RiC-R062i ('is associated with rule' relation)
Connects a Thing to a n-ary Relation.
thing is connected to relation
Connects a Date and a Thing that was last modified at this Date.
is last update date of
Connects an Agent Name to an Agent it designates or designated.
is or was agent name of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isAgentNameOf").
Connects at lest one Person, to at least another Person, when the first has child the second one.
Child Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R018 and RiC-R018i relations
Connects a Record Set and a Record State that categorizes some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has or had some members with record state
file
An organized unit of documents grouped together either for current use by the creator or in the process of archival arrangement, because they relate to the same subject, activity, or transaction. A file is usually the basic unit within a record series. (From ICA ISAD(G))
Connects an Agent Origination Relation to one of the resulting Record Resource or Instantiation
agent origination relation has source
Connects an Identifier Type and an Identifier that it categorizes.
is identifier type of
Object property added along with IdentifierType class and hasIdentifierType object property.
A definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Can be spacial units (cm, m), weight (g, kg), time (s, h), storage (MB, TB) or more informal units used in the archival context like number of boxes, pages or words.
unit of measurement
Datatype property created along with quantity, Extent and UnitOfMeasurement classes, in order to provide methods for handling extent accurately.
Use if you do not use the UnitOfMeasurement class for handling units of measurement along with Extent.
Information on the status of an Accrual
accrual status
scope note : updated. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
A text statement or single words such as “Closed” to indicate that no additional Record Resource will (or is anticipated to) be added to the Record Set; “Open” to indicate that additional records or record sets will (or are expected to) be added to the Record Set; or “Unknown” to indicate that this information is not available, for example. See also accrual
corresponds to RiC-A01 (Accrual attribute)
Connects a Person to a Family Relation.
person has family relation
Connects a successor Agent to an Agent Temporal Relation
agent is target of agent temporal relation
Inverse of 'is date associated with' object property.
is associated with date
RiC-R068i ('is associated with date' relation)
Connects a Temporal Relation to a Thing that follows other Thing(s) in time.
temporal relation has target
Connects a Person to a Sibling Relation.
person has sibling relation
Connects a Production Technique Type to an Instantiation whose production technique is categorized by it.
is production technique type of
Inverse of 'has or had subject' object property.
is or was subject of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isSubjectOf").
RIc-R019i ('is or was subject of' relation)
Connects a Provenance Relation to an Agent or Activity.
provenance relation has target
Connects at least two Agents that have some type of work relation in the course of their activities.
Work Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R046 and RiR046i relations-
Connects an Appellation to a Thing that it designates or designated.
is or was appellation of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isAppellationOf").
Connects a Person (as an ancestor) to a Descendance Relation.
person is source of descendance relation
Connects at least two Persons that directly know each other during their existence. This relation is symmetric.
Knowing Relation
Cass implementation of RiC-R051 and RiC—R051i relations
Connects at least one Person to at least another one, when the first one has some knowledge of the second one through time or space.
Knowing Of Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R050 and RiC-R050i relationsi
Connects an Agent that holds a Record Resource or Instantiation, to a Record Resource Holding Relation
agent is source of record resource holding relation
Connects a Thing (that follows other Thing(s) in time) to a Temporal Relation.
thing is target of temporal relation
physical or logical extent
Provided for usability reasons. Use only if you cannot use the subproperties (particularly if the same free text is being used in your current metadata for describing the record resource, carrier and instantiation extent).
Connects a Record Resource, Instantiation or Rule to a title that is or was used for designating it.
has or had title
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasTitle").
Inverse of 'authorizes' object property
authorized by
RiC-R067i ('authorizedBy' relation)
Connects two Persons that directly know each other during their existence. This object property is symmetric.
knows
RiC-R051 ('knows' relation)
Conditions of an Instantiation that impact the legibility or completeness of Record Resource, and thus the viability of its use. Conditions may be associated with deficiencies in the processes of Record (re)creation or capture, or the deterioration of the Instantiation (e.g. its carrier) causing loss of information of the record over time
quality of representation
some loss of text due to rodent damage
Black and white digitization may have led to loss of some information.
some loss of information due to poor quality of image capture
Corresponds to RiC-A34 (Quality of Representation attribute)
Connects a Record Set and a Language used by all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has of had all members with language
Connects at least one Person to at least another Person, who is their student.
Teaching Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R053 and RiC-R053i relation
Connects an Activity Documentation Relation to one of the resulting Record Resources or Instantiations
activity documentation relation has source
Connects a Record Resource To Instantiation Relation to the Record Resource (that was instantiated).
record resource to instantiation relation has source
Categorization of an Event.
Event Type
Events of all kinds can be categorized. Curation event types include creation; acquisition; transfer; arrangement; description; digitization, etc. Biographical event types include birth, marriage, death, etc.
Corresponds to RiC-A18 (Event Type attribute)
Inverse of 'has child' object property.
is child of
changed the IRI and label (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasParent").
RiC-R018i ('is child of' relation)
Connects a Migration Relation to the migrated Instantiation.
migration relation has source
Connects an IntellectualPropertyRightsRelation to one of the Group, Person or Position that holds the rights.
intellectual property rights relation has source
Connects a Leadership Relation to the Position occupied by the leading Person.
leadership with position
Connects a Date to a Thing that was modified on that Date.
is modification date of
RiC-R073 ('is modification date of' relation)
Connects a Record or Record Part to a Record State that categorizes its state.
has record state
Changed the IRI (hasRecordResourceState changed to hasRecordState), label, textual definition and domain (RecordResource replaced by Record or Record Part).
Connects a Whole Part Relation to the Thing that has some parts.
whole part relation has source
Connects a Thing (that is associated with a Rule) to a Rule Relation.
thing is target of rule relation
Information on a Mandate that authorizes an Agent to perform an Activity.
authorizing mandate
Provided for usability reasons. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use the Mandate class for handling mandates.
geographical coordinates
Latitude 35.89421911, Longitude 139.94637467
Latitude 50°40′46,461″N, Longitude 95°48′26,533″W, Height 123,45m
Provided for usability reasons. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use PhysicalLocation and Coordinates classes with Place. Coordinates may be based on ISO 6709 Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates.
Corresponds to RiC-A11 (Coordinates attribute)
Connects a Record Resource Holding Relation to a Record Resource or Instantiation (that is held by an Agent).
record resource holding relation has target
Categorization of an Activity.
Activity Type
Scope note: updated (different from RiC-CM scope note). Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Can be extended with any number of subclasses, e.g. “function/action” and “activity domain”. This allows for a faceted approach that enables an Activity to be categorized using a combination of components, general or more specific. For example, “monitoring” can be used in combination with “election polls” or “water resources”.
Corresponds to RiC-A02 (Activity Type attribute)
An identifying name of a Record Resource, Instantiation or Rule.
title
Use only if you don't use Title class for handling titles.
Specialization of RiC-A28 (Name attribute)
Connects two Persons that are or were married. This relation is symmetric.
has or had spouse
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasSpouse").
RiC-R049 ('has or had spouse' relation)
Connects a Documentary Form Type and a Record Set whose all past or present Record or Record Part members have that Documentary Form Type.
is or was documentary form type of all members of
Connects a Group Subdivision Relation to one of the Groups that is a subdivision
group subdivision relation has target
Connects a Rule to a Rule Type that categorized or categorizes it.
has or had rule type
Object property added along with RuleType class and isRuleTypeOf object property.
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasRuleType").
Connects a Thing (that is associated with an Event) to an Event Relation.
thing is target of event relation
collection
An artificial assemblage of documents accumulated on the basis of some common characteristic without regard to the provenance of those documents. Not to be confused with an archival fonds. (From ICA ISAD(G))
Inverse of 'has sender' object property.
is sender of
RiC-R031i ('is sender of' relation)
Inverse of 'is or was performed by' object property.
performs or performed
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "performs").
RiC-R060i ('performs or performed' relation)
Inverse of 'is modification date of' object property.
has modification date
RiC-R073i ('has modification date' relation)
Connects an Instantiation to Instantiation Relation to one of the related Instantiations.
instantiation to instantiation relation connects
Connects a Record Set and a Content Type that categorizes some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has or had some members with content type
Connects a Sibling Relation to one of the spouses involved.
spouse relation connects
thing is target of relation
Connects a Thing to a Temporal Relation, when this Thing precedes other Thing(s) in time.
thing is source of temporal relation
Connects a Person (as a leader) to a Leadership Relation.
person is source of leadership relation
Connects an Activity Type to an Activity that it categorizes.
is activity type of
Connects a Position Holding Relation to a Person (who occupies a Position).
position holding relation has source
Connects two Record Resources when there is a genetic link between them. Genetic in this sense is as defined by diplomatics, i.e. the process by which a Record Resource is developed. This relation is symmetric.
has genetic link to record resource
Use to connect two Record Resources only if it is not possible to be more accurate and specify a narrower, asymmetric relation, e.g. ‘is original of’.
RiC-R023 ('has genetic link to record resource' relation)
Countable characteristics of the Instantiation expressed as a quantity.
Instantiation extent
Scope note updated. Examples added. Objective: to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM v0.2.
Size of PDF-file: 1.5 MB
The book register has 345 written leaves.
For a given Record Resource, the Instantiation Extent may vary, based on format, density of information on the carrier, etc. For example, a file of 1500 words (Record Resource Extent) may have Instantiation Extent 3kb as a Word document and 5kb as a PDF file, and instantiations may be represented on a CD of 700mb (Carrier Extent). Use if you don't use InstantiationExtent class and its properties for handling such information.
Corresponds to RiC-A23 (Instantiation Extent attribute)
A delimitation of the physical territory of a Place.
Physical Location
Usually associated to one to many Places, and known during some time. A location may be linked to one to many Coordinates.
Class implementation of RiC-A27 (Location attribute)
Connects a Place to a region that is or was within it.
contains or contained
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name ; added a scope note (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "contains").
Use for connecting two geographical or administrative regions.
RiC-R007 ('contains or contained' relation)
Inverse of 'has instantiation' object property.
is instantiation of
changed the IRI and label (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "instantiates").
RiC-R025i ('is instantiation of' relation)
Inverse of 'is or was expressed by' object property.
expresses or expressed
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, corresponding CM component name (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "expresses").
RiC-R064i ('expresses or expressed' relation)
Connects a Date to an Appellation, when it is the date at which the Appellation was first used.
is from use date of
Inverse of 'precedes in time' object property.
follows in time
RiC-R009i ('follows in time' relation)
Connects a Knowing Of Relation to a 'known by' Person (a Person on which another one has some has some knowledge.)
knowing of relation has target
Record Set Types
International Council on Archives Records in Contexts Vocabulary for Record Set Types
A vocabulary on Record Set types
Connects a Mandate Relation to a Mandate.
mandate relation has source
Connects a Record Resource or an Instantiation to an Agent that creates or accumulates the Record Resource, receives it, or sends it.
has provenance
RiC-R026 ('has provenance' relation)
Connects a Person (as a member of a Group) to a Membership Relation.
person is target of membership relation
Connects a Record Set and a Language used by some of the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has or had some members with language
Connects two Instantiations. This object property is symmetric.
is instantiation associated with instantiation
RiC-R034 ('is instantiation associated with instantiation' relation)
Connects an Instantiation (from which at least one Instantiation is migrated) to a Migration Relation.
instantiation is source of migration relation
The height of a Place above a reference level, especially above sea level.
altitude
The extent of a Record Resource carrier
Carrier Extent
Class added in order to handle an accurate description of a carrier extent
Countable characteristics of a record resource carrier expressed as a quantity.
Class implementation of RiC-A04 (Carrier Extent) attribute
Distance in degrees north or south of the equator.
latitude
The role an agent plays in some context (usually in some creation relation). Not to be confused with a position (position of an agent in some group). For example, a person who is the head of some corporate body may play the role of annotator (of a record) in a creation relation.
Role Type
Connects at least one Record Resource or Instantiation to at least one Activity, when the Record Resource or Instantiation results from the activity.
Activity Documentation Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R033 and RiC-R033 relations
Connects a Record Resource relation to one of the related Record Resources.
record resource relation connects
Inverse of 'has or had teacher' object property.
has or had student
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasStudent").
RiC-R053i ('has or had student' relation)
Connects a Performance Relation to a performing Agent.
performance relation has target
Connects an Appellation to the Date till when it was used.
was used to date
Inverse of 'knows of' object property.
known by
RiC-R050i ('known by' relation)
Connects a Position (that is occupied by a Person) to a Position Holding Relation.
position is target of position holding relation
Connects a Person or a Group to a Demographic Group to which it belongs or belonged.
has or had demographic group
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, domain (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "belongsToDemographicGroup").
Connects at least two Persons, when they are spouses.
Spouse Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R049 and RiC-R049i relations
Information about a source used to identify or describe an entity.
source
Can be used, in particular, for Records having documentary form type Finding Aid or Authority Record, or for Relations. Use only if you don't use the hasSource object property.
Connects two Agents that have or had some type of work relation in the course of their activities. This relation is symmetric.
has or had work relation with
changed the IRI, label, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasWorkRelationWith").
RiC-R046 ('has or had work relation with' relation)
Connects a Thing to a constitutive or component part of that Thing.
has or had part
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasPart").
The end of existence of a whole/part relation may affect the integrity or nature of the domain entity
RiC-R002 (has or had part relation)
Connects a Record to the Group, Person or Position that is responsible for conceiving and formulating the information contained in the Record.
has author
To be used for any contribution to the content of a Record. Includes (of course) the Person, Group or Position in whose name or by whose command the content may have been formulated and first instantiated (e.g. the person who signed it).
RiC-R079 ('has author' relation)
The extent of an Instantiation.
Instantiation Extent
Class added in order to handle an accurate description of an instantiation extent
Countable characteristics of an Instantiation expressed as a quantity.
Class implementation of RiC-A23 (Instantiation Extent attribute)
Connects a Record Resource to a Record Resource Genetic Relation.
record resource is connected to record resource genetic relation
Terms and circumstances affecting the use of a Record Resource after access has been provided. Includes conditions governing reproduction of the Record Resource under applicable copyright (intellectual property) and/or property legislation, and of the Instantiation, due to conservation status.
conditions of use
Freely usable without restrictions
The permission of the owner of the Record must be obtained before use.
The record cannot be copied using warm light copying machines or photographed using flashlight.
Corresponds to RiC-A09 (Conditions of Use attribute)
Connects a Descendance Relation to one of the ancestor Persons
descendance relation has source
Connects an n-ary Relation to any of the Things involved.
relation connects
Connects a Thing (that is the source of a Relation) to a Relation.
thing is source of relation
Connects a Position (that exists within a Group) to a Position to Group Relation.
position is source of position to group relation
Connects a Record Resource to a reply, usually in the form of correspondence.
has reply
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isRepliedToBy").
RiC-R013 ('has reply' relation)
Connects a Record Set and a Documentary Form Type that categorizes all the Records or Record Parts that are or were included in the Record Set.
has of had all members with documentary form type
Connects at least two Record Resources.
Record Resource to Record Resource Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R022 and RiC-022i relations
Connects a Record Resource to one or more Instantiations that instantiate it.
Record Resource to Instantiation Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R025 and RiC-R025i relations
Connects a Representation Type to an Instantiation that it categorizes.
is representation type of
Value representation based on a standard, preferably machine-readable.
normalized value
Date at which something ended.
end date
A label, title or term designating the entity in order to make it distinguishable from other similar entities. For Record Resource or Instantiation, the Name is generally assigned by an Agent as most do not have a Name given when created.
name
hearing services
4 March 1842
Digital copy of the Pomarius archival inventory from 1575
fundraising, University of Glasgow
Papers of the Earls of Liverpool
The Letter of Neacsu from Campulung to the Mayor of Brasov
Sketch Map of the Qatar Peninsula
Nelson Mandela
Use only if you don't use Name class for handling names.
Corrresponds to RiC-A28 (Name attribute)
Connects two Instantiations which may be considered as equivalent. This relation is symmetric.
is functionally equivalent to
changed the scope note.
Two Instantiations, from some point of view, may be considered as equivalent. This equivalence is usually based upon the fact that the Instantiations have at least the same intellectual content (they instantiate the same Record Resource).
RiC-R035 ('is functionally equivalent to' relation)
Connects a Record Resource To Instantiation Relation to an Instantiation of the involved Record Resource.
record resource to instantiation relation has target
Connects a Rule to a Thing that is associated with the existence and lifecycle of the Rule.
is rule associated with
RiC-R062 ('is rule associated with' relation)
Connects a Migration Relation to a resulting Instantiation.
migration relation has target
Connects a Place and at least one Thing, when the first is associated with the existence and lifecycle of the second one.
Place Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R074 and RiC-R074i relations
Connects an IintellectualPropertyRightsRelation to one of the Record Resource or Instantiation on which the rights are held.
intellectual property rights relation has target
Connects a Record Set to a Record Set Type that categorizes it.
has record set type
The inscription of information made by an Agent on a physical carrier in any persistent, recoverable form as a means of communicating information through time and space.
Instantiation
A Record or Record Part must have been instantiated at least once, though this instantiation may no longer exist at the moment of description. An instantiation might also exist at the moment of description, but be destroyed at a later moment in time, when, for example, a derived instantiation might become the only remaining instantiation. A Record Set may have an instantiation, which is to say that it is not a necessary condition. An Instantiation may be derived from another Instantiation. A Record Resource may have many Instantiations simultaneously (for instance, a record printed and saved in the same time as DOCX and PDF/A would have 3 concurrent instantiations) or through time (for example, copy of a record). Depending on the context, a new instantiation may be seen as a new or as the same record resource. During in the process of re-instantiation something is lost and something is preserved, but it is up to the context and the Agent that produces or uses that Instantiation to assess whether the two instantiations are functionally equivalent or not. For instance, a postcard representing a town map from 1874 (Instantiation 1) is digitized and kept as a JPEG file (Instantiation 2). The digital copy may be considered as instantiating the "same" Record by an Agent considering the information transmitted by the Record (e.g., the urban landscape displayed), but as a" different" Record by an antiquarian more focused on the materiality of the carrier. Successive instantiations may change the perceivable boundaries of a Record Resource. For instance, a case file comprising many records may be digitized and saved as one single PDF file, which, from management perspective, may be treated as one Record. Similarly, a large Record Set (a fonds or a series) may be maintained as one database. On the other hand, one record (main document and its annexes) may be digitized in separate files and each one may be managed as a discrete “physical” item. Instantiations may require mediation to communicate the information in the Record Resource. While a traditional Record on paper can simply be read by an Agent in order to understand the information, a vinyl recording, a video cassette or a digital file needs a device (mediator) to codify or decodify the information conveyed. This mediator may imply simple physical components (a turntable needle, for example), or a complex gallery of software and hardware elements. Instantiations are more than the mere informational content of Record Resource and may be the focus of preservation and physical management of records. The use of particular document types for records, such as a medieval charter, may have implications for the authenticity of the records. Hence, the way a Record Resource is instantiated contributes to the contextualizing of the content.record resource is instantiated contributes to the contextualizing the content. Distinguishing the message conveyed (Record Resource) and its physical representations (Instantiation) allows for the efficient management of their descriptions, and preserve information about a Record Resource even when no physical representation of it exists or is known to exist anymore. The relations between distinct instantiations can then be expressed wherever they coexist, and they can be related to the Record Resource they instantiate.
Corresponds to RiC-E06 (Instantiation entity)
PREMIS Representation
Connects a Record and an Authorship Relation.
record is source of authorship relation
A textual expression of an Appellation or Date.
textual value
Connects a Group and at least one Person, when the first one has the second one(s) among its members.
Membership Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R055 and RiC-R055i relations
Connects a Category (Type) and a Record Set whose all present or past Record or Record Part members belong to that Category.
is or was category of all members of
Inverse of 'has or had component' object property.
is or was component of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isComponentOf").
RiC-R004i ('is or was component of' relation)
Information about the completeness of a Record Resource or Instantiation.
integrity
The database (DBF) file has the checksum SHA-1: 99f9d780e441785016dea545b72dad700305535a.
The book register’s last pages are missing, which affects the completeness of the record.
The charter is missing the seal.
The information about integrity may be generated manually or automatically.
Corresponds to RiC-A24 (Integrity attribute)
Connects at least one Record Resource or Instantiation to at least one Agent, when the Agent accumulates it, be it intentionally (collecting it) or not (receiving it in the course of its activities).
Accumulation Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R028 and RiC-R028i relations
Connects a Position to a Membership Relation (the member Person occupies that Position).
position is context of membership relation
Connects an Event to a Thing that is or was actively or passively involved in it.
has or had participant
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "involves").
RiC-R058 ('has or had participant' relation)
Connects a Management Relation to an Agent who is involved as a manager.
management relation has source
Connects a Group, Person or Position to a Thing that this Agent owns or owned.
is or was owner of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isOwnerOf").
RiC-R037 ('is or was owner of' relation)
Connects a Group (which has a leader) to a Leadership Relation
group is target of leadership relation
Connects a Demographic Group to a Person or Group which belongs or belonged to it.
is or was demographic group of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, range (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isDemographicGroupOf").
Connects a Type Relation to a Thing (that is categorized by the involved Type).
type relation has target
Information on the anticipated accession(s) to the Record Set.
accrual
See also accrualStatus
Connects an Event to an Event Relation
event is source of event relation
Connects a Language to an Agent, Record or Record Part that uses or used it.
is or was language of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isLanguageOf").
Date representation based on a standard, preferably machine-readable.
normalized date value
Corresponds to RiC-A29 (Normalized Date attribute)
Connects an Agent to an Agent that is hierarchically inferior.
has or had subordinate
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isHierarchicallySuperiorTo").
The hierarchical relation can be an authority relation, or a whole/part relation between two Groups
RiC-R045 ('has or had subordinate ' relation)
A concept of any kind that is used for designating an Entity and referring to it.
Appellation
A term used to characterize an entity.
type
Provided for usability reasons. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use Type subclasses for handling categories.
Inverse of 'includes or included' object property.
is or was included in
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "includedIn").
RiC-R024i ('is or was included in' relation)
Connects a Person (as a child) to a Child Relation.
person is target of child relation
Connects a Date to a Thing that came into existence on that Date.
is beginning date of
RiC-R069 ('is beginning date of' relation)
Identifier of the standard of the Normalized date.
date standard
ISO8601
IETF
Corresponds to RiC-A14 (Date Standard attribute)
Connects an Instantiation to a Carrier Type which categorizes its carrier.
has carrier type
Connects a Language and a Record Set whose some present or past Record or Record Part members use that Language.
is or was language of some members of
Date at which an entity was deleted.
deletion date
Connects a Position Holding Relation to a Position (that is occupied).
position holding relation has target
Connects an Occupation Type to a Person whose occupation is or was categorized by it.
is or was occupation type of
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition, super property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "isOccupationTypeOf").
Connects an Instantiation (from which at least one Instantiation is derived) to a Derivation Relation.
instantiation is source of derivation relation
The rule or conditions that govern the existence or lifecycle of a Thing.
rule followed
Provided for usability reasons. May be deprecated and removed later on. Use only if you don't use the Rule class for handling rules.
Connects an Activity to an Activity Documentation Relation
activity is target of activity documentation relation
Connects a Leadership Relation to a Person who is involved as a leader.
leadership relation has source
Connects a Group to one of its present or past subdivisions.
has or had subdivision
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRIs (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasSubdivision").
RiC-R005 ('has or hadsubdivision' relation)
Connects a Family Type to a Family that is categorizes.
is family type of
Connects at least one Agent and one Record Resource or Instantiation on which the Agent has some intellectual property rights.
Intellectual Property Rights Relation
Can be used, when the record resource is a work, for specifying the connection between the record resource and its author(s).
Class implementation of RiC-R040 and RiC-R040i relations
Reference system used for altitude
altimetric system
inverse of 'has provenance' object property.
is provenance of
RiC-R026i ('is provenance of' relation)
Connects an Instantiation to an Instantiation to Instantiation Relation.
instantiation is connected to instantiation relation
Categorization of a Place.
Place Type
Broadly, a Place may be a member of three broad categories: jurisdiction, manmade structure, or a natural feature. Each of these three categories can subdivided into narrower categories.
Corresponds to RiC-A32 (Place Type attribute)
Connects at least two Agents.
Agent Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R044 and RiC-044i relations
Connects an Accumulation Relation to one of the accumulated Record Resources or Instantiations
accumulation relation has source
Connects at least one Event to at least one Thing, when the first is associated with the existence and lifecycle of the second one.
Event Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R057 and RiC-R057i relations
Connects a Mandate Relation to an Agent who is given the authority or competencies to act.
mandate relation has target
A label, title or term designating the entity in order to make it distinguishable from other similar entities.
Name
Class implementation of RiC-A28 (Name attribute) (see also the name data property)
Connects a Creation Relation to one of the created Record Resources or Instantiations
creation relation has source
Connects an Activity to an Agent that performed or performs the Activity.
is or was performed by
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition, super property IRI (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "performedBy").
RiC-R060 ('is or was performed by' relation)
Categorization of the production or reproduction status of a Record or Record Part.
Record State
IRI and label changed (RecordResourceState to RecordState), as well as textual definition.
Can in particular refer to a record state of development or its status of transmission once finished (draft, original, copy...). Specifying that a record resource has state copy usually implies that another record resource existed or exists, of which the one described is the copy. In such a case you can also use 'is copy of' object property.
Corresponds to RiC-A39 (State attribute)
Connects a Record resource to an Agent who published it.
hasPublisher
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI (the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "publishedBy").
Connects a Role Type to a Creation Relation (this Role Type being the specific role played by the creating Person in the context of this Relation).
role is context of creation relation
Connects two Record Resources. This object property is symmetric.
is record resource associated with record resource
RiC-R022 ('is record resource associated with record resource' relation)
Inverse of 'has reply' object property.
is reply to
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, text definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "repliesTo").
RiC-R013i ('is reply to' relation)
Connects an Agent to a Thing the Agent has or had authority over.
has or had authority over
changed the IRI, label, inverse property IRI, textual definition (changed made in order to make RiC-O compliant with RiC-CM 0.2; the name of this property in RiC-O 0.1 was "hasAuthorityOver").
RiC-R036 ('has or had authority over' relation)
Connects a Thing to at least one constitutive or component part of that Thing.
Whole Part Relation
Class implementation of RiC-R002 and RiC-R002i relations