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
User Experiences
Development Activity
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/commits
Release Feed
Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2026-03-09 19:25:41
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-RC1 v4.2.0-RC1]
- by thimios
- 2026-02-27 19:12:14
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-test v4.2.0-test]
- by thimios
- 2025-07-02 14:58:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.1 V4.1.1]
- by github-actions[bot]
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-03-08 19:59:55
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7440c2c1f3dc59cc439f3c3e249833aaf2fa45df Add a db:user_password_reset task for dev environment]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-04 18:51:47
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/59c4d73cf2256920b8470f027476a30a8f24c108 Merge pull request #3978 from archivesspace/release-notes-exclude-tea…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-04 14:05:54
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/34380eeb09d0eb48d2c2081327a5ca4b81897cac Exclude more users from community contributions section in release notes]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-03 18:45:23
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/779e2f3bc76932ab1619121defca137b7595c61c Merge pull request #3976 from archivesspace/release-notes-fix-task]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-03 18:42:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/452af3ccb3523b21e7af490f748428c75ee413ec fix thor tasks]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios