Summary

Structure is an Attribute in the Records in Context - Conceptual Model.

Details

The Records in Context - Conceptual Model v. 0.2 (December 2019) defines and describes Structure as follows:
Definition
Information about the physical and intellectual arrangement and composition of a Record Resource or Instantiation.

Specification
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 may encompass information about the methodology/criteria used for arrangement (physical/intellectual) of the records within a Record Set.
For Instantiation, it may comprise information about the composition of the physical elements of the instantiation

Extensibility
The attribute may be extended with any number of specific attributes.

Repeatability
Repeatable

Value Schema
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Scope Notes
The attribute is not to be confused with Classification attribute, which provides information about the category which the Record Set belongs to within a classification scheme.
Structural information may be included in the Scope and Content attribute when the information is important in the understanding of the content of the Record Resource or Instantiation and when it is not described separately under the Structure attribute.

Examples
The record has 2 appendixes, 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;
inside each file, the records are arranged chronologically;
The database has 3 related tables, first containing names, second containing addresses, and the third containing passports numbers

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