OGP Commitment 11

Records in Contexts

As used in Archives Central

Presented by Jonathan Hunt (@kayakr)

https://kayakr.gitlab.io/presentation-2020-ogp-ric/

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Catalyst

Archives Central

• Archives Central (about), 9 councils
• Islandora 8
• ICA Records in Contexts (Conceptual Model v0.2, ontology)
• Migrated Records, Still Images, Documents from Kete
• Migrated supporting data incl. Agents, Places

Records in Contexts

• ICA Records in Contexts (Conceptual Model v0.2, ontology)
• 2012 ICA formed the EGAD
• built on existing standards like ISAD(G)
• 2016 first draft... now v0.2
• development process opaque / slow
• long term data preservation

RiC Entity Hierarchy

Records in Contexts

• Entities, e.g. Corporate Body (RiC-E11), etc.
• Attributes, e.g. Name (RiC-A28), Identifier (RiC-A22), etc.
• Relations, e.g. controls (RiC-R041), is antecdent of (RiC-R016), etc.
• v0.2 has 22 entities, 41 attributes, 78 relations

Records in Contexts mapping

• via rdf.mapping.node.*.yml, rdf.mapping.term.*.yml, etc.
• RiC mapping is partial, e.g.
  • Not using Event (RiC-E14), Rule (RiC-E16), Mandate (RiC-E17), etc.
  • skip over Group (RiC-E09) to Family (RiC-E10), Corporate Body (RiC-E11)
  • Date is EDTF string, not class
  • relation in Islandora is from Instantiation (RiC-E06) media to Record node (RiC-R025i instantiates)
  • relations are not classes, have no attribtes
  • Might use Record Part (RiC-E05) in future

SPARQL: All corporate bodies ended in 1989

prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
prefix rico: <https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/ontology#>
SELECT DISTINCT ?name ?s
WHERE {
  ?s rico:name ?name .
  ?s rico:hasEndDate "1989" .
  ?s rdf:type rico:CorporateBody .
  FILTER(CONTAINS(STR(?s), "archivescentral"))
}
ORDER BY ?name

RiC Agent class diagram

Records in Contexts: other bits

• Event (RiC-E14)
• ^ Activity (RiC-E15) "function"
• Rule (RiC-E16)
• ^ Mandate (RiC-E17), authority to perform Activity
• Date (RiC-E18)
• ^ Single Date (RiC-E19), Date Range (RiC-E20), Date Set (RiC-E21)

Some ideas

• Corporate Body Type (RiC-A12) could be Public Service Department, Departmental Agency, Crown Entity, etc.
• tracking changes to model via SKOS change notes
• Leadership relation

Questions

jhunt@catalyst.net.nz

https://kayakr.gitlab.io/presentation-2020-islandora-online-ac/