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Registration is an alternate means of incorporating items, their metadata, and their bitstreams into DSpace by taking advantage of the bitstreams already being in storage accessible to DSpace. An example might be that there is a repository for existing digital assets. Rather than using the normal interactive ingest process or the batch import to furnish DSpace the metadata and to upload bitstreams, registration provides DSpace the metadata and the location of the bitstreams. DSpace uses a variation of the import tool to accomplish registration.

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To register an item its bitstreams must reside on storage accessible to DSpace and therefore referenced by an asset store number in dspace.cfg. The configuration file dspace.cfg establishes one or more asset stores through the use of an integer asset store number. This number relates to a directory in the DSpace host's file system or a set of SRB account parameters. This asset store number is described in The dspace.cfg Configuration Properties File section and in the dspace.cfg file itself. The asset store number(s) used for registered items should generally not be the value of the assetstore.incoming property since it is unlikely that you will want to mix the bitstreams of normally ingested and imported items and registered items.

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