Profiles tree

A profile is a named, bounded conformance target - a server declares which it supports and consumers know exactly what to expect. Profiles are additive, not hierarchical. Click any profile to open its specification; drag to pan, controls to zoom.

flowchart LR
  classDef norm fill:#eafaf1,stroke:#10b981,color:#065f46;
  classDef draft fill:#fff7ed,stroke:#f59e0b,color:#92400e;
  ROOT([OpenRiC conformance]):::norm

  subgraph N [Normative]
    CD["Core Discovery
read records, agents, vocab"]:::norm
    AC["Authority & Context
places, rules, activities"]:::norm
    GT["Graph Traversal
/graph · /relations · /hierarchy"]:::norm
    DOL["Digital Object Linkage
instantiations · functions"]:::norm
    RTE["Round-Trip Editing
POST/PATCH/DELETE + audit"]:::norm
    PE["Provenance & Event
activity shapes"]:::norm
    EX["Export-Only
OAI-PMH · JSON-LD/Turtle"]:::norm
  end

  subgraph D [Draft - v0.43 governance line]
    SP["SPARQL Access
read-only /sparql"]:::draft
    GOV["Governance
IRI policy · SHACL gate"]:::draft
    PORT["Portability
round-trip · DCAT/VoID"]:::draft
    IP["Inferred-Provenance
AI vs documented fact"]:::draft
    GG["Graph-Grounding
/ground for RAG"]:::draft
  end

  ROOT --> CD --> AC --> GT --> DOL --> RTE --> PE --> EX
  ROOT --> SP
  GOV --> PORT
  GOV --> IP
  CD --> GG

  click CD "/spec/profiles/core-discovery.html"
  click AC "/spec/profiles/authority-context.html"
  click GT "/spec/profiles/graph-traversal.html"
  click DOL "/spec/profiles/digital-object-linkage.html"
  click RTE "/spec/profiles/round-trip-editing.html"
  click PE "/spec/profiles/provenance-event.html"
  click EX "/spec/profiles/export-only.html"
  click SP "/spec/profiles/sparql-access.html"
  click GOV "/spec/profiles/governance.html"
  click PORT "/spec/profiles/portability.html"
  click IP "/spec/profiles/inferred-provenance.html"
  click GG "/spec/profiles/graph-grounding.html"

The profiles

Normative (claimable today):

Core Discovery - read-only records, agents, repositories, vocabulary, autocomplete. The minimum “I can be queried” claim.
Authority & Context - places, rules, activities as first-class entities.
Graph Traversal - /graph, /relations, /hierarchy cross-entity walks.
Digital Object Linkage - instantiations (carriers) + ISDF functions.
Round-Trip Editing - the full write surface with an audit trail.
Provenance & Event - tightened activity shapes (results, participants, dates).
Export-Only - OAI-PMH harvest + per-record JSON-LD / Turtle / RDF-XML.

Draft (open for comment):

SPARQL Access - a read-only SPARQL 1.1 endpoint.
Governance - pinned standards, the two-layer IRI policy, deprecate-not-delete, SHACL as a merge gate.
Portability - lossless round-trip + a DCAT/VoID dataset descriptor + validate-on-export.
Inferred-Provenance - AI-asserted edges are visibly distinguishable from documented fact.
Graph-Grounding - a /ground endpoint so RAG agents disambiguate against the graph.

See Conformance & profiles for how to claim and test them.