Collection/Item Metadata Relationships

Renear, Allen H.; Wickett, Karen M.; Urban, Richard J.; Dubin, David; Shreeves, Sarah L.

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Description

Title

Collection/Item Metadata Relationships

Author(s)

• Renear, Allen H.
• Wickett, Karen M.
• Urban, Richard J.
• Dubin, David
• Shreeves, Sarah L.

Issue Date

2008-09-24

Keyword(s)

• Metadata
• Dublin Core Collection Application Profile
• collection-level metadata
• logic
• ontology
• Information Retrieval

Abstract

Contemporary retrieval systems, which search across collections, usually ignore collection-level metadata. Alternative approaches, exploiting collection-level information, will require an understanding of the various kinds of relationships that can obtain between collection-level and item-level metadata. This paper outlines the problem and describes a project that is developing a logic-based framework for classifying collection/item metadata relationships. This framework will support (i) metadata specification developers defining metadata elements, (ii) metadata creators describing objects, and (iii) system designers implementing systems that take advantage of collection-level metadata. We present three examples of collection/item metadata relationship categories, attribute/value-propagation, value-propagation, and value-constraint and show that even in these simple cases a precise formulation requires modal notions in addition to first-order logic. These formulations are related to recent work in information retrieval and ontology evaluation.

Publisher

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9144

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Institute for Museum and Libary Services (Grant #LG-06-07-0020)

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