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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- 2025-07-02 14:58:27
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- 2025-05-14 15:55:37
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- 2025-05-02 04:30:43
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- 2026-01-07 22:00:33
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0d90338d5c1a4eff6cc06b489b6870d2239944df ANW-2119 Fix PUI search plusminus button label issues]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-01-07 16:13:13
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f8d51f8f2a991ce4697537b7d1916dde50ae3ea6 ANW-2542: Fix secondary sort menu in search results table (#3800)]
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- 2026-01-07 16:08:45
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/9b6c7d7e7edda5f5a5e5ce18261733b6245ee383 ANW-2519 wait for the form to be updated when clicking on specific forms]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-01-06 17:36:53
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a12cc6415d1bb0cee845c476abc82fb7939a819d ANW-2256 Fix system logs auto scroll button appearance and add featur…]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-01-06 17:36:53
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cd87d398869756f041de6c631184a4a7981f9346 ANW-2256 refactor and fix displaying of frontend and backend system logs]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios