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What is the Digital Collection Gateway?

April 26, 2017collection digital Gateway

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What is the Digital Collection Gateway?

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From OCLC: “The Digital Collection Gateway enables you to upload metadata from your collection into WorldCat. You can use the Digital Collection Gateway to create profiles for your collection metadata to be regularly harvested (using http://www.openarchives.org Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [OAI-PMH]), uploaded, and converted to WorldCat format. After harvesting, WorldCat returns a list of OCLC numbers that can be added to your collection’s metadata to support future synchronizations. After collections are uploaded via the Digital Collection Gateway, they are available for end-users to search and discover from WorldCat. End-users can click through to view and use your collection.” Please note: “By registering with the Digital Collection Gateway your organization is agreeing to Section 4.B.