Titled «RiC: A Standard in Its Contexts», this event will:
- Provide an update on the latest developments from the EGAD group and RiC, as well as the roadmap for the coming year;
- Offer a partial yet insightful overview, through several presentations, of the various contexts in which RiC can be useful, the approaches implemented in the presented projects, their results, the lessons learned, and the emerging perspectives.
The study day will begin with a focus on achievements in France, followed by presentations on international or transnational projects led by archival services or research teams.

Possibility of following the day online

Languages: Presentations will be in French or English.

Broadcast: A video recording of the study day will be made available later on the AnF’s DailyMotion channel.
 

PROGRAMME: 

9:30 AM: Welcome and introduction, by Thomas Van de Walle, Director of Digital and Preservation (AnF), and Gabriela Andaur Gómez, Head of Programmes (ICA)

9:50 AM – 10:30 AM: RiC standard updates and roadmap, by Florence Clavaud (Head of the Lab at the AnF, Chair of ICA/EGAD)

10:30 AM: Coffee break

10:45 AM: Roundtable on RiC projects in France (chaired by Thomas Van de Walle)

- RiC-O on FranceArchives: achievements and perspectives, by Manonmani Restif (Service Interministériel des Archives de France)

- Ongoing RiC projects and perspectives at the Archives nationales de France, by Florence Clavaud

- The SemPER project (https://sparna-git.github.io/semper/): a proof of concept in a departmental archives service, by Anne Goulet or Nathalie Regagnon (Archives départementales de la Haute-Garonne)

- Describing linguistic fieldwork archives with RiC-O, by Sylvain Loiseau (LACITO-CNRS (UMR 7107) / Sorbonne Paris Nord University)

12:30 PM: Lunch break

2:00 PM: Session on international or foreign research projects and work (chaired by Silke Jagodzinski, The Prussian Secret State Archives, Germany)

- From finding aids to a social knowledge graph. A brief introduction to SoNAR (https://sonar-project.sbb.berlin/) by Gerhard Müller (Berlin State Library, Germany)

- Designing a RiC-CM-compliant database from heterogeneous historical sources: feedback from the ERC-CNRS research project "Off-Site" on post-1979 Iran, by Natalia Pashkeeva (responsible for the "counter-archives" component of the ERC-CNRS "Off-Site" project)

- On the boundaries of archival description, by Richard Williamson (National Archives of Norway)

3:45 PM: Coffee break

4:00 PM: Session on projects in archival services (chaired by Zdenka Semlič Rajh, Archives of the Republic of Slovenia)

- Looking ahead to the future with RiC. Opportunities and potential in the PARES authorities file, by Elisa García Prieto (Centro de Información Documental de Archivos – CIDA, Ministry of Culture, Spain)

- Towards an Italian archival knowledge graph: the ArCo4Archives ontology and the role of RiC-O, by Stella Di Fazio (Central Institute for Archives (ICAR), Italy)

- A selection of regional perspectives on the Records in Contexts standard, by Jamie Lee (National Archives of Singapore)

5:45 PM: Closing remarks and end of the day, by Florence Clavaud