Display item meatdata from a different item

I want to display a piece of metadata from different item in the current item record so just wondering the best way to go about.

I have tried the following piece of code but this doesn't work:

<?php
$item = get_record_by_id('Item', 1989);
$item_abstract = metadata('item', array('Dublin Core', 'Story Abstract'));
echo $item_abstract;
?>

So say I'm on record 1970, I want to include the story abstract metadata field from 1989 on the page as well as its coming from a catalogue entry.

Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks, Patrick.

Not to worry I have figured it out:

<?php
$item = get_record_by_id('Item', 1989);
echo metadata($item, array('Item Type Metadata', 'Story Abstract'));
?>