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We've just been discussing a similar question, so thank you Youn for bringing this up! We decided to use PREMIS to record metadata in a digital preservation project with state archives in Switzerland. I should point out that this is really a very basic, pilot project, and that we are not using METS, which may be the cause of some of the problems we encountered. Namely, we are archiving data from a database-driven application. We plan to combine several plain-text data files, information about the data model, and other files into a zip-file. So we have a representation (the AIP in the current form) consisting of one file (the zip-file) which itself consists a couple of other files - there clearly is a hierarchy of files that is difficult to model in PREMIS. Example 3 in the PREMIS Data Dictionary (p. 3-34 sqq.) gives a hint of how to achieve this, namely through the use of the "relationship" semantic unit. However, this looks more like a workaround to me, as I understand a file cannot contain other files. Is this understanding correct? Or am I missing the actual point here? Thanks for any kind of clarification. Best, Georg -- Coordination Agency for the Preservation of Electronic Files c/o Swiss Federal Archives Archivstrasse 24 3003 Berne Switzerland T/ +41 31 322 82 18 F/ +41 31 322 78 32 E/ [log in to unmask] W/ http://kost-ceco.ch/ > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: PREMIS Implementors Group Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im > Auftrag von Youn Noh > Gesendet: Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 00:07 > An: [log in to unmask] > Betreff: Re: [PIG] Upcoming revision of the PREMIS Data > Dictionary - call for participation > > For repositories that aren't using METS, I'm wondering if it > might not be a good idea to make it possible to represent > structural relationships in PREMIS hierarchically by revising > the schema for the object entity so that relationship can be > a child of relationship. > > Thank you, > Youn > > > Youn Noh > Digital Resources Catalog Librarian > Catalog Department > Yale University Library > P.O. Box 208240 > New Haven, CT 06520-8240 >