ArchivesSpace

ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories.
Homepage:	http://www.archivesspace.org/
License:	Educational Community License, version 2.0.
Input Formats:	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Output Formats:	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Function:	Access,Metadata Processing
Content type:	Metadata

Description

ArchivesSpace is an open source, web application for managing archives information. The application is designed to support core functions in archives administration such as accessioning; description and arrangement of processed materials including analog, hybrid, and born-digital content; management of authorities (agents and subjects) and rights; and reference service. The application supports collection management through collection management records, tracking of events, and a growing number of administrative reports. The application also functions as a metadata authoring tool, enabling the generation of EAD, MARCXML, MODS, Dublin Core, and METS formatted data.

ArchivesSpace dates from June 2009 when representatives of New York University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of California San Diego, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation agreed to integrate the Archivists' Toolkit and Archon into a single application in order to increase overall functionality within a single application and to optimize sustainability of the application. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided generous funding for the first two phases of the ArchivesSpace program. A planning phase ran from January 2010 to June 2011, during which functional specifications were drafted, a business plan was formulated, and an organizational home was secured. A development phase ran from July 2011 to September 2013, culminating in the release of ArchivesSpace 1.0 on September 30, 2013. There have been nine releases of ArchivesSpace since the 1.0 release, all of which have served to both advance the integration of the Archivists' Toolkit and Archon and to introduce new functionality not present in either of those precursor applications. Source: http://archivesspace.org/overview

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/commits

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2025-07-02 14:58:27

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.1 V4.1.1]

by github-actions[bot]

2025-05-14 15:55:37

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.0 v4.1.0]

by github-actions[bot]

2025-05-02 04:30:43

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.0.0 V4.0.0]

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Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2025-12-12 16:26:33

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/da6fba24c4ab3a0eb5be3df5eaae2937814de73f ANW-1796 External document links on the PUI should open in a separate…]

by Zeff https://github.com/Zeff

2025-12-12 11:32:05

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e0cc3a86ad11328ea51917d741b50265af21802b Merge pull request #3812 from archivesspace/ANW-2566-broken-pui-headi…]

by thimios https://github.com/thimios

2025-12-10 10:38:48

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/783b1a48891d08fc729894c83a4aef68e704aa51 ANW-2566 Improve site-wide PUI document heading hierarchy]

by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip

2025-12-09 15:11:10

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/028619018d742942af58c79ccc4a1ec18633c338 ANW-1967, ANW-2487: Fix is_active_user value reverting to true on for…]

by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip

2025-12-08 18:28:59

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5649ad068192976547c0bdd09d620984065f8b63 Merge pull request #3811 from archivesspace/ANW-2565-PUI-digitized-br…]

by thimios https://github.com/thimios