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Collection/Item Metadata Relationships Renear, Allen H. Wickett, Karen M. Urban, Richard J. Dubin, David Shreeves, Sarah L. metadata Dublin Core collections context logic inferencing 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 two simple examples of collection/item metadata relationship categories, attribute/value-propagation and value-propagation, 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. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2008-09-10 Text application/pdf text/html https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952109206 https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/article/952109206 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference Proceedings en https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68278028 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/