Live Demo

This page runs inside your browser and fetches live RiC-O data from the reference API at ric.theahg.co.za/api/ric/v1 over the OpenRiC Viewing API. Nothing on openric.org proxies or caches - the spec site and the API are genuinely independent. That is the point.

Prefer a catalogue view? /demo/browse/ renders the same data as a responsive card grid with per-type filters - useful for evaluating the shape of a dataset before drilling into the graph.

Demonstration dataset. Some records and relationships in the reference service are synthetic, derived or machine-generated. They show how OpenRiC behaves and must not be cited as an institution's catalogue without checking their source.

About the reference backend. ric.theahg.co.za/api/ric/v1 is a standalone Laravel service backed by Heratio’s archival database. The data is a demonstration set, reset every night. Heratio shares the database and writes through its own routes; see Architecture.

Try: Ready.

What the demo proves

The spec (served by openric.org) and the reference API (served by ric.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.