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
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Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2025-07-02 14:58:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.1 V4.1.1]
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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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Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-02-17 14:35:32
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1d2a7903b1151b7c30684c192c40eb12099ad0e1 Delete the demo.sql file at project root level from Softserv]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-02-17 14:35:32
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/15a0f1a451fbb2aa2f423527259c8581f98bb52a update the demo db in the repository with the actual demo db we use]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-02-17 13:24:54
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/80a9a263ce989e089d2d6b1c1a4250415fab24e5 Merge pull request #3939 from archivesspace/ANW-2519-shard-e2e]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-02-16 18:28:12
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/549637076f6ea76e718760a43831025ad13d849a fix flakey specs]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-02-16 18:26:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0be3b22a49dff049cc2b593b6fc1f5ffb157d80e ANW-2519 shard e2e tests]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios