Digital Collection Gateway
The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is a self-service tool for harvesting the metadata of your unique, open-access digital content into WorldCat. Once there, your collections are more visible and discoverable to end users who search WorldCat as well as other popular websites.
- Get started
- Find information about getting started with the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.
- Use the Digital Collection Gateway
- Use this guide to lead you through the steps for using the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway to add records to WorldCat from OAI-PMH compliant repositories or your CONTENTdm metadata records.
- Digital Collection Gateway training
- Find training on the Digital Collection Gateway.
- Frequently asked questions
- Find frequently asked questions about the Digital Collection Gateway.
- Can I create a collection description in Gateway?
- Can I register more than one CONTENTdm user with the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway?
- Can I register more than one repository with the Digital Collection Gateway?
- Can I tell the Gateway how to display a thumbnail for my digital content?
- Can more than one person from my organization use the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway?
- Can one source metadata field be mapped to multiple WorldCat.org display fields?
- Does all metadata have to come from source data, or can I specify more collection-level data in mappings?
- Does my use of the Gateway make my organization a member of OCLC?
- How do I create a collection description in Gateway?
- How will duplicates be handled? For example, if my organization has a rare book that we've digitized and harvested, what happens if another institution harvests that same book?
- I’m using Connexion digital import to load records into one of my CONTENTdm collections. Should I use the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway?
- In the Manage Accounts tab of the Gateway I notice that I can select a repository type from a pull-down list. Are there different features available for different repository types?
- Is there a suggestion on how I should configure data such as language codes?
- It appears that some of my records were not harvested to WorldCat. How can I tell what happened?
- I noticed the Gateway checking my repository to see if it supports metadata prefix “oclc_dc”. What is this?
- Metadata in my repository is contributed by several different organizations. How can these organizations be given attribution in WorldCat?
- My server configuration has changed. How do I change the corresponding harvest URL in the Digital Collection Gateway?
- The OAI-PMH protocol allows the transfer of any metadata format that has a valid, addressable schema/namespace. My repository can support Dublin Core and MARC. Since we can supply MARC, can that be used?
- What if there are only certain collections that I want Gateway to harvest?
- What if there are only certain sets that I want Gateway to harvest?
- What is the difference between Replace all Records and Add New Records
- What is the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway?
- When I am viewing my digital records in the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, the number of records in a collection sometimes changes
- When I log into the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, am I able to harvest my entire repository as one set?
- Why am I getting errors in the Gateway when I attempt to use the Qualified Dublin Core metadataPrefix with my DSpace server?
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Can the Gateway support a non OAI-PMH compliant repository?
- Can I run our Digital Collection records through a Data Sync Collection?
- Can we create a collection for our Digital Collection Gateway records?
- Does DCG match on existing records in WorldCat?
- How can I change the name of a repository inside Digital Collection Gateway?
- How can I get a count of our Digital Collection Gateway holdings in WorldCat
- How can I get a list of all of my library's Digital Collection Gateway content?
- How can I remove duplicates from our digital collections?
- How can we get an account added to our Digital Collection Gateway?
- How can we run a scan/delete of our WorldCat holdings without deleting all the digital collections' holdings for our symbol?
- How do I add a repository to my Digital collection gateway account?
- How do I add a user to our Digital Collection Gateway?
- How do I cancel the email delivery of the Digital Collection Gateway monthly report?
- How do I delete a collection from Digital Collection Gateway?
- How do I delete a repository from Digital Collection Gateway?
- How do I edit the indicators in the 856 field?
- How do I manually sync a collection through the Digital Collection Gateway?
- How do I map the data from the 024 field into an 856 field?
- How do I reset my Digital Collection Gateway password?
- How do I stop duplicate harvesting from CONTENTdm and DSpace through the Digital Collection Gateway?
- How do we change our harvest URL inside the Digital Collection Gateway?
- We are migrating our collections to a new repository. How do we delete the links to our old repository from WorldCat?
- I've registered a Digital Collection Gateway institutional profile, and now I want to register an account in DCG, but I don't know the key. Please help me get the key.
- Is it a good thing to map every field in the bib record just in case you need to edit something later on?
- Is it possible to specify a custom metadata Prefix in our harvest URL?
- Is there a way to delete WorldCat records that have been harvested through Digital Collection Gateway?
- Is there a way to set up automated harvesting from repositories?
- I am getting a message inside my reports that says: Digital Collection Gateway Source record contains no OCLC number, but a record exists in WorldCat. Replaced in WorldCat . The record should be updated in your local collection.
- I am having trouble adding a user account to Digital Collection Gateway. I get an invalid key notification.
- I have mapped a link to the "view online" button, but the link is not showing up in WorldCat
- I would like to add myself as a user in Digital Collection Gateway but it asks for a key. Where do I get a key?
- On the Collection Details screen there is an option to "Replace all". What does the "Replace all" option do?
- Our institution has files web-hosted by a software provider. How can these records be uploaded to OCLC and made visible in WorldCat?
- There is no link appearing on the WorldCat records we harvested in Digital Collection Gateway.
- We are getting a 500 error when trying to harvest our records.
- We want to change harvest URLs, and we use CONTENTdm as a repository.
- We would like to update our harvest URL inside OAIster.
- When we are using Digital Collection Gateway, can we add our work manually?
- Where do I find my digital collection gateway key?
- Where do I find my OAI-PMH base URL?
- Where would I go to remove a collection from an OAI feed?
- Why can we not change our collection to use the Qualified Dublin Core standard?
- Why do I keep receiving a validation error related to the BLvl and the 773 field of our records?
- Why is DCG failing our repositories ListSets?