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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- 2025-12-18 15:06:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2922597660718f7c2d02ce6f9318b87fc9702a55 ANW-2519 avoid flakiness on new forms with defaults]
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- 2025-12-18 15:06:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/aab5e8940f1f6b24bc696219cb5331722ccfd33f ANW-2519 refactor for readability and avoid flakiness]
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- 2025-12-18 15:05:05
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d67e0e0b49bc991980599999e405d541725f14df ANW-2555 fix pui highlighter specs]
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- 2025-12-18 14:32:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f77dec627cd1feac77e4b67f9242d617efe80e94 run frontend specs without the db setup overhead]
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- 2025-12-18 14:32:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7a0669229c8920fe05dd7cef18806dc8b361c904 ANW-2256 fix display of system info and logs on staff UI]
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