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name: discovery-data-cm-add-collection
title: Adding collections
description: You can add a collection directly to the Content Mining application.
last-updated: 2025-01-20
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# Adding collections
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You can add a collection directly to the Content Mining application.
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You might want to add a collection from within the Content Mining application to make data available for use as training data for a document classifier, for example.

The collection can contain an uploaded CSV file only. For information about file guidelines, see [Analyzing CSV files](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-cm-csv-file&format=markdown).

The collection that you create is not added to your existing Content Mining project. A new Content Mining project is created to store the collection. The project that is generated is given the name that you specify for the collection.

When a collection is created from the Content Mining application, you must not ingest additional documents (CSV files) using the Discovery API. Use the Discovery UI or Content Miner UI to add additional documents to an existing collection that is created from the Content Miner UI.
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To add a collection, complete the following steps:

1.  From the analysis view of your collection, click the **Collections** link in the breadcrumb to open the *Create a collection for your analytics solutions* page of the Content Mining application.

1.  Click **Create collection**.

1.  Drag your CSV file to the *Import your files* dialog, or click Open to browse for the file. When the button is available, click **Next**.

1.  You can optionally customize the columns that you want to include or exclude from the collection, and adjust the data types of the fields from the *Fields* page. Click **Next**.

1.  From the *Enrichments* page, you can optionally apply or remove any enrichments from the collection, and then click **Next**.

    The *Part of Speech* enrichment is applied automatically.

1.  On the *Facets* page, you can optionally customize the data that is displayed for facets. Click **Next**.

1.  Click **Save** to save and index the collection.