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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- 2026-07-13 03:23:15
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- 2026-04-07 12:59:37
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- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
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- 2026-10-06 11:18:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7273a92090bcb28ef10540c1c23c784e5f780466 ANW-3047 Update e2e AO and DOC steps to make edit/view explicit]
- by lorawoodford https://github.com/lorawoodford
- 2026-10-06 11:18:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cd940b3834bcac3298864eabbe19b5143ecd117c Merge pull request #4316 from kspurgin/ANW-3039]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-10-06 11:09:46
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e8e508a4c45c453d09a95434ee4a9858f76af649 Merge pull request #4320 from archivesspace/public_locales]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-10-06 10:38:24
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- by r.f.vlak@uva.nl
- 2026-10-06 10:38:12
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/82a77d103a162f92344aaf496831ee802b80dbb9 Merge pull request #4319 from archivesspace/frontend_locales]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios