A 5-minute tour
Six things to try in five minutes - the wizard, the model navigator, the live graph, the API, the conformance probe, and the spec.
The fastest way to understand OpenRiC is to poke at the live surfaces. None of these need an account.
1. Model something in the wizard
Open the modelling wizard, pick a scenario (or describe your own material), and walk the decisions. It explains why each RiC entity fits, and creates the entities live. Start here - it teaches the model by doing.
2. Explore the model
Open the RiC-CM navigator and click into an entity (say Record Part). Note the declared vs inherited attributes and relations.
3. Walk the live graph
Open the viewer against a real archival dataset. Click any node to expand its neighbourhood - same data, visual.
4. Call the API
curl -s https://ric.theahg.co.za/api/ric/v1/records | head
curl -s https://ric.theahg.co.za/api/ric/v1/health
Every read endpoint returns application/ld+json. See Using the API.
5. Probe a server for conformance
BASE=https://ric.theahg.co.za/api/ric/v1 ./conformance/probe.sh
Pure bash + jq; points at any OpenRiC server and reports pass/fail across every required endpoint. See Conformance & profiles.
6. Read the spec
Four short documents - mapping, viewing API, graph primitives, conformance - plus the profiles.
Where next
- Archivist? → The RiC entities & relations
- Developer? → Using the API
- Evaluating adoption? → For institutions
Something missing or unclear? Tell us in Discussions or email johan@theahg.co.za.