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.
- Troubleshooting
- Are name and subject headings in MARC records added via Digital Collection Gateway also added too VIAF?
- 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 OCLC correct errors in a record created by the Digital Collection Gateway?
- Can one source metadata field be mapped to multiple WorldCat.org display fields?
- Can the Digital Collection Gateway pull items from one location and create links to another?
- Can the Digital Collection Gateway support a non OAI-PMH compliant repository?
- Does my use of the Gateway make my organization a member of OCLC?
- Encoding Characters when in the edit map utility
- ERROR: Timeout: the ListRecords response took too long error when trying to open MARC map for a collection
- Failed Testing OAI support error when adding new repository
- Featured Digital Collection Gateway Troubleshooting articles
- How can I add my content to OAIster?
- How can I change the name of a repository inside Digital Collection Gateway?
- How can I remove duplicates from our Digital Collection Gateway?
- How can I select only part of the data inside a field in my repository to fill a MARC field in the Metadata map?
- How can we update the email associated with a Digital Collection Gateway account?
- How does Digital Collection Gateway identify records that need to be updated?
- 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 user from DCG?
- How do I fix duplicating or unremovable fields in the DCG MARC View?
- How do I map the data from the 024 field into an 856 field?
- How do I query WorldCat to get records for titles in a particular Digital Collection Gateway repository?
- How do I reset my Digital Collection Gateway password?
- How do we delete a repository from DCG?
- How do we update our repository URL in Digital Collection Gateway?
- How To Change The OCLC Symbol On A Collection That Has Been Harvested?
- Invalid relationship - when BLvl (Leader/07) is equal to a, then 773 must be present error in Digital Collection Gateway
- Is it possible to specify a custom metadata Prefix in our harvest URL?
- Is there a sandbox version of Digital Collection Gateway?
- Is there a way to delete WorldCat records that have been harvested through Digital Collection Gateway?
- It appears that some of my records were not harvested to WorldCat. How can I tell what happened?
- I am getting a "not found in database" error when I try to login
- 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 can't update the sync schedule for my collection.
- I noticed the Gateway checking my repository to see if it supports metadata prefix “oclc_dc”. What is this?
- On the Collection Details screen there is an option to "Replace all". What does the "Replace all" option do?
- Still seeing Register button after registering a repository under the Harvesting tab
- Testing set uniqueness error when adding new repository
- 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
- What if there are only certain collections that I want Gateway to harvest?
- What is my key to add users to my Digital Collection Gateway account?
- What is the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway?
- What versions of Unicode does the Digital Collection Gateway support in its metadata?
- When we are using Digital Collection Gateway, can we add our work manually?
- Where did WorldCat Item View go?
- Where do I find my Digital Collection Gateway key?
- Where do I find my OAI-PMH base URL?
- Why am I getting a Registration Error HTTP 500 when registering my DCG account?
- Why am I getting errors in the Gateway when I attempt to use the Qualified Dublin Core metadataPrefix with my DSpace server?
- Why am I seeing "Unable to validate record"?
- Why can we not change our collection to use the Qualified Dublin Core standard?
- Why does the Monthly Repository Report say unable to get display name?
- Why is DCG failing our repository's ListSets?
- Why is Discovery not showing the Access Online link for my items imported via the Digital Collection Gateway?
- Why is the author on all Digital Collection Gateway records listed as a "creator"?