Collection/Item Metadata Relationships

Abstract

The Collection Item Metadata Relationships project has developed a framework of relationships that can occur between metadata that describes collections and metadata that describes the resources that are members of those collections. In order to examine how these relationships appear "in the wild", we have derived an RDF repository from the IMLS DCC collection repository. By querying the repository, we can see how actual descriptions of collections and items correspond to the framework developed by CIMR and adjust the encoding of relationships within the framework. In this presentation, I will briefly present the motivation and one example category from the CIMR framework and then show how the results of our queries have influenced an adjustment to our framework.