The purpose of this study Is to investigate the possibility and the limit of the application of the registration data to the description of records and archives by analyzing of the elements in the registration of records prescribed in the Record and Archives Management Act of Korea. Registration data provides the descriptive information of records at item or file levels. And also the registration data makes an important role of providing the primary descriptive information for progressively describing the series and group level of archives by archivist, which eventually conform the principle of the multi-level description. Therefore the registration of records is one of the management process of records which makes records to be a manageable objects. In addition to that the registration of records is the first level in building the multi-level description of records and archives.