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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- 2026-04-07 12:59:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0 V4.2.0]
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- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-RC1 V4.2.0-RC1]
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- 2026-02-27 19:12:14
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-test v4.2.0-test]
- by thimios
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-04-17 13:28:18
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5470255736e2135fabb36c314fb899bad03d4f48 Merge pull request #4044 from archivesspace/ANW-2647_MariaDB_Bulk_Import]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-04-16 16:02:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c85e5c8f76e8b400a83ae0304f9ce514d475a605 combine adding the output file and the created_uris into one db trans…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-04-16 16:02:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6429e22f52649a98f84c2251fbd6acd759d75bea remove unnecessary comments and unused variables]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-04-16 16:02:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d1073f71ab05d20306972b4b36d9a007a382b441 fix undefined variable]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-04-16 16:02:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c59cee6d469dfdf8984463f0b7b4fb5e32e7183e fix rubocop offences]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios