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About WorldShare Management Services sandbox

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Find an overview of the WMS sandbox and learn how to access it.

Overview

The WMS sandbox provides your library with a safe training and testing environment so you can train your staff and test various configuration options and APIs on a curated data footprint with representative holdings, without impacting your WMS production environment or data.

It includes access to the majority of the WorldShare suite of services and complete and current non-production versions of global data assets such as WorldCat and the WorldCat knowledge base.

The WMS sandbox is only available to WMS libraries that have purchased the full suite of WorldShare applications, including Acquisition and Circulation.

Testing capabilities within the WMS sandbox include:

  • Bulk load testing
  • Integration testing with third-party financial systems
  • API configuration and testing
  • Testing of user notices

Libraries in the United States, Canada and EMEA that are currently live with WMS can, for an additional charge, request a sandbox environment by contacting OCLC Library Services, or contacting your OCLC Library Services Consultant.

Your WMS sandbox environment is available Monday–Friday:

  • U.S. – 02:00- 20:00 (or 2:00 AM – 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time)

 Note: The WMS sandbox is only available to libraries in the US, Canada, and Europe at this time.

For additional information, see the WorldShare sandbox FAQ.

Access

WorldShare staff accounts (WorldShare Admin tab) can be maintained separately from your production accounts. Therefore, they will not automatically be copied to the sandbox environment.

Your library's sandbox URLs will have the following format. Replace yourlibrary with your library's identifier:

  • WorldShare: https://yourlibrary.share-sandbox.worldcat.org/wms
  • Discovery: https://yourlibrary.on-sandbox.worldcat.org/discovery
  • Discovery A-Z: https://yourlibrary.on-sandbox.worldcat.org/atoztitles/browse

The OCLC Service Configuration sandbox environment can be accessed at https://sandbox.worldcat.org/config.

Roles

The sandbox includes access to production and global data assets. As a result, we request that the following restriction be placed on any users created in the sandbox:

  1. Cataloging roles should be limited by policy to Cataloging Limited to prevent editing of global bibliographic data by sandbox users
  2. The following roles should not be assigned to avoid sandbox users editing of the Vendor Information Center:
    • SERIALS_ADMIN
    • SERIALS_RECEIVE
    • VIC Vendor Administrator
  3. To avoid sandbox user creating or editing Knowledge Base collections, only Collection Manager Staff should be assigned (which provides read-only access to the Knowledge Base)

Data types

The WMS sandbox contains a complete copy of global data assets, including WorldCat and the WorldCat knowledge base, is included in the sandbox. The data can be accessed and edited without affecting the production data assets. 

Global data assets are updated monthly from the production system for all libraries using a sandbox.