ArchivesSpace
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
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Development Activity
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/commits
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- 2025-07-02 14:58:27
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- 2025-05-14 15:55:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.0 v4.1.0]
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- 2025-05-02 04:30:43
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.0.0 V4.0.0]
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- 2025-12-17 20:28:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/552a6c625ba9586640dee1460271f2e1540c5acf upgrade dependencies]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-17 20:28:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0579279568ac8605dc562442a0b6f2a2524b3e29 remove scenarios with unimplemented steps]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-17 18:21:30
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f6847464e480eab6b9f8279335218b9774c562fb ANW-1903: Provide two Plus One buttons on the Create Batch Locations …]
- by cpapazoglou https://github.com/cpapazoglou
- 2025-12-17 15:42:24
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/65d71e26783831987e6db5baede2dde62c35dff6 Merge pull request #3823 from archivesspace/ANW-2519-fix-flakiness]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-17 15:31:38
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f50c3f7936948b3385c3dde8b1e170c855bab5bf Update wording for two config options]
- by cdibella https://github.com/cdibella