Applying Records in Contexts in a Federal University Record (RiC)

Conference: Linked Archives International Workshop 2021, At: online, September 2021

Conclusion: 

A new archival description standard is under development by ICA and promises to replace the four previous standards ISADG(G), ISAAR(CPF), ISDF and ISDIAH. The process is not easy and needs to cover the most distinct realities of archives around the world. The description process will need to be adapted to reflect the graph way of thinking, allowing to archivists and systems to add relations between the elements that were not possible before. As consequence, these new relations will improve the records contexts of the archives. 

The use case made with the selected record at the UFSM is a pilot study and will need to be done to all records in order to migrate to the RiC description model. The systems that currently generate records will need to be changed to store the constant growing relations that records will have, as well as the diffusion tools that will need to show the network of entities related to the records. Additionally, the description tools will need to have adaptions to provide to archivists functionalities that make the description task more user-friendly. 

The road to establish RiC as the new standard is too long and will require efforts from all the archival community, involving different professionals to make RiC a facto-standard. While the model still is in the elaboration process, other use cases studies will need to be done to support EGAD. 

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