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Warning
titleRegistering is not Importing

The procedures below will not import the actual bitstreams into DSpace. They will merely inform DSpace of an existing location where these Bitstreams can be found. Please refer to Importing and Exporting Items via Simple Archive Format for information on importing metadata and bitstreams.

Overview

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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