Records in Contexts
Records in Contexts, or RiC, is a standard for describing records, created and maintained by the Expert Group on Archival Description (EGAD) of the International Council on Archives (ICA). Version 1.0 of the first three parts of the standard — a high-level conceptual model (RiC-CM), an ontology (RiC-O), and a description of the foundations of the standard (RiC-FAD) — were released in late 2023, whilst version 0.1 of the fourth part, containing application guidelines (RiC-AG), was released in October 2025.