This is the public GitHub repository that holds the source files on RiC-O OWL ontology.
ICA RiC-O (Records in Contexts-Ontology) is an OWL 2 ontology for describing archival record resources. As the third part of Records in Contexts (RiC) standard, it is a formal representation of Records in Contexts Conceptual Model (RiC-CM).
The latest public release of RiC-O, RiC-O 1.0.2, dated September 2024, is now available. Version 1.0.2 follows the release of RiC-O 1.0.1, dated May 2024, and the release of the first stable and complete version of this ontology, thus a major milestone, RiC-O 1.0. Version 1.0.1 modified a few details in the introduction, fixed a few typos in the documentation of RiC-O 1.0, and brought one change only, fixing the IRI of 'hasOrHadSomeMemberswithDocumentaryFormType' object property (changed to rico:hasOrHadSomeMembersWithDocumentaryFormType). Version 1.0.2 fixes an inconsistency bug in RiC-O 1.0, removing global reflexivity from the 48 rolification object properties. It also fixes the French labels of six object properties. Finally, a version IRI (owl:versionIRI) has been added to this 1.0.2 version, in order to make RiC-O fully compliant with the OWL 2 specification as concerns ontology documents.
RiC-O 1.0.2 is fully compliant with RiC-CM 1.0, which is available in the corresponding repository https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-CM.
The OWL/RDF file of RiC-O 1.0.2 is stored in the ontology/current-version folder of this repository, with accompanying material, including a HTML version provided for human readers. The repository also contains other resources, among which examples and diagrams.
RiC-O 1.0.2 is also accessible to humans and machines through its IRI, https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology.
You can easily download the whole content of this repository using the latest release.
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