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]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 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:
- 2026-05-29 11:26:16
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3d5522a16954c84280d4ee117745dff18c6240eb Merge pull request #4074 from marktriggs/extended-csv-export]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-05-29 11:22:56
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3c39d387196ea86dbd54e63567f271a9fadcb458 ANW-1860 Add repeatable access restriction types to bulk import (#4095)]
- by Zeff https://github.com/Zeff
- 2026-05-28 08:06:46
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e9af9309ad0eb1e517a38dddab3b76e4b3c80096 Merge pull request #4102 from archivesspace/frontend_locales]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-05-28 02:20:00
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a26bca8b011c06b54a502bef7330d2daaad163e7 Add Yale's extended CSV export]
- by marktriggs https://github.com/marktriggs
- 2026-05-27 16:11:35
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/247ffb9d38fef2dc4c758aaf83487c7f0a947009 Translated using Weblate (Italian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org