Digital Gateway

Through your efforts in building digital collections with CONTENTdm, your unique treasures are showcased on the Web for local and global information seekers. Having devoted the resources to creating these collections, broadening visibility and access is of foremost importance.

The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway provides you with a self-service tool for uploading the metadata of your unique digital content to WorldCat—the premier database of library materials. Once your metadata is in WorldCat, your collections are more visible and discoverable by end users who search WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start", as well as Google, Yahoo! and other popular Web sites.

As your library, museum or other cultural heritage organization continues to upload metadata, you are creating a collective digital repository to enrich the resources available to your end users. They will be able to search WorldCat and find exactly the resources they need from your library's digital collections of rare, historic or local materials, along with the materials provided by other libraries around the world. Ultimately, users will click on items and visit your digital collections by viewing those items immediately on their screen—anytime, anywhere. 

Available to all CONTENTdm users at no additional charge, the Gateway is key to offering your library's unique collections maximum Web visibility—all via WorldCat.

The gateway enables libraries to transform their CONTENTdm Dubline Core metadata to the MARC format, then upload the mapped metadata into WorldCat. (Image courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society.)

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