Abstract
This article aims to describe several major themes of a newly released standard by International Committee on Archives, namely Records in Contexts (RiC). More than mere comprising all four existing standards, RiC to uplift function and activity of records within their own origin contexts. Almost three decades after the publication of the first standard (General International Standard Archival Description [ISAD-G]), RiC has developed its own understanding about major archival themes such as provenance, fonds, and original order, to comply with a very recent development of rapidly changing medium by questioning the famous adagium “medium is the message” back in 1970’s and reading machines that are understood as being separated from the records itselves. Either records or archives have shifted from texts to contexts.
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