Why is Registration offered as an option with DSpace?
Three reasons: (1) UCSD’s commitment to DSpace and UCSD’s particular circumstances: UCSD has large collections of digital objects (several hundred thousand objects and roughly six terabytes) for which UCSD would like to use DSpace for management and access and eventually preservation. These collections are currently maintained in SRB storage resources. Ingesting these into DSpace using the DSpace batch import capability, that is copying the files into DSpace, would put a severe strain on a DSpace server’s processing capability, network resources, and also require yet more physical storage resources at least in the transition. (2) SRB and Registration appear to complement each other quite well. (3) Registration was developed under the NARA grant (UCSD, MIT, and SDSC) to integrate DSpace and SRB.
