This is the public GitHub repository that holds the documents and information on Foundations of Archival Description (RiC-FAD).
RiC-FAD is a brief description of the foundational principles and purposes of archival description..
The latest version of RiC-FAD is RiC-FAD 1.0, that was published by ICA/EGAD on November 30, 2023. It is available for download here. It is available in the current-version subfolder of this repository. The previous versions of RiC-FAD are available in the previous-versions subfolder of this repository.
If you have questions or comments about FAD, you can:
- send your feedback directly to egad@ica.org
- use the 'Records in Contexts users' group to share your thoughts and proposals, ask questions, inform the community about your projects.
RiC-FAD 1.0 comes with:
- a high level conceptual model, RiC-CM. The latest official version of RiC-CM is RiC-CM 1.0, that was published on November 30, 2023. This version is available here: https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-CM.
- an OWL ontology, RiC-O. The latest official version of RiC-O is RiC-O 1.0, that was published on December 30, 2023, and conforms to RiC-CM 1.0. This public version is available here: https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-O.