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
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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
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- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
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- 2026-02-27 19:12:14
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- 2026-05-15 17:00:05
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f51ea86f764c9e776538bf6f83de95c8844cd7a0 ANW-2743 realtime re-index top containers when linked to records (#4083)]
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- 2026-05-15 14:41:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2f005934e50ec29677aff0d1a36d66e5a4031d98 Merge pull request #4087 from archivesspace/frontend_help_locales]
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- 2026-05-15 14:40:41
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/34443d81bd0c16aed53608e23323ec5b66974480 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master']
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- 2026-05-15 14:38:49
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7c286a041f2ae47a4abfaaa69e17f201d718e752 Merge pull request #4086 from archivesspace/frontend_locales]
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- 2026-05-15 14:11:38
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