structure RiC-A40

Definition

Information about the intellectual arrangement and composition of a Record Resource or the physical arrangement and composition of an Instantiation. For Record and Record Part, it encompasses information about the intellectual composition of the record, the presence of record parts and their functions. For Record Set, it encompasses information about the methodology or criteria used for arranging the Record Set members or Record members within the containing Record Set. For Instantiation, it may comprise information about the composition of the physical elements of the instantiation

Scope notes

Use only if you cannot use the subproperties (particularly if the same free text is being used in your current metadata for describing the record resource and the instantiation structure). For a Record Set, may be used to summarize the structure of the Record Set itself, or additionally to summarize the structure of some or all members of the Record Set. Should not be confused with the classification datatype property, which provides information about the category which the Record Set belongs to within a classification scheme.

Declared on

No declared domain entities.

Examples

• Inside each file, the records are arranged chronologically (about a record set)
• The database has three related tables: names, addresses, and passport numbers (about a record)
• The record has two appendices, comprising a full account of the income from car taxes and real estate taxes
• The series have the files arranged according to the alphabetical order of the places concerned