Live Demo

This page runs inside your browser and fetches live RiC-O data from the reference implementation at heratio.theahg.co.za over the OpenRiC Viewing API. Nothing on openric.org proxies or caches — the spec site and the implementation site are genuinely independent. That is the point.

About the reference implementation. Heratio currently runs the OpenRiC API as an internal module, not as a separate service the rest of Heratio consumes over HTTP. RiC data is already stored in its own dedicated tables (ric_place, ric_rule, ric_activity, ric_instantiation, ric_relation_meta), so the data boundary is clean — full client-server split of Heratio into “RiC API service” + “Heratio GLAM client” is on the roadmap. The API surface exercised by this demo is the same one an external client would use.

Try: Ready.

What the demo proves

The spec (served by openric.org) and the reference implementation (served by heratio.theahg.co.za) live on separate infrastructure.
The viewer is ported straight from Heratio’s UI and re-used here with a one-line adapter from openric:Subgraph → viewer’s {nodes, edges}. Any other server implementing the OpenRiC Viewing API can swap in — same viewer, different backend.
Every edge carries a canonical rico:* predicate as per Graph Primitives §3.3.