Metadata for presentation / preservation of physical structure

This paper investigates support for presentation of physical structure in existing metadata schemas used in digital preservation. Physical structure in this case is entirely focused on visual attributes for digital objects, in particular web-forms of the kind that is beeing used in many eGovernment services. In order to spot gaps and problem areas, practical examples in the form of demonstrator objects is constructed using PREMIS, and to a lesser extent utilising METS behavior section. METS is also tried as a wrapper for PREMIS. The new version of PREMIS (2.0) is found to be useful, much depending on the more refined support (both related to earlier PREMIS and METS) for significant properties.Godkänd; 2008; 20080915 (jorgen_n