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:
- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-RC1 V4.2.0-RC1]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 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]
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Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-03-30 10:31:02
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/ea6ab002cc9bafa6b913c53522a094e7f115f7e2 Merge pull request #4009 from archivesspace/ANW-2679-move-AO-transfer…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-30 09:48:04
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3a9c8a385d24a464587b351d1c20cb20f5f8cca0 Merge pull request #4011 from archivesspace/ANW-2680-pui-subjects-lin…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-27 14:51:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/95099500900da72b0ce5d0bcb1e45d07f71e4811 ANW-2680 Add app_prefix to subject link in PUI subjects list]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-03-26 16:15:45
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/554912035a9e3dec6220bef3fdac9cd1f98da325 Translations update from Hosted Weblate (#4008)]
- by weblate https://github.com/weblate
- 2026-03-26 16:09:49
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c199dd4fc16f8543bcddf9edc4fcb23f01729e4f ANW-2679 Move the AO transfer button from the tree to the record pane]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip