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:
- 2026-06-29 10:35:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.1 v4.2.1]
- by thimios
- 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]
- by github-actions[bot]
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-07-02 14:50:08
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c5a964a2c9363d2995c23285946ad90f5810d7f4 common translated using Weblate (Italian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org
- 2026-06-30 15:00:47
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cc4e0a6a7d1d9caa08c523b726772112f9b38f4e Merge pull request #4160 from archivesspace/use-nginx-stable]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-06-29 18:37:22
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a13b8e64c192cf0585e7c39eebe2bf41bfd3a4fb use nginx stable rather than 121]
- by Blake- https://github.com/Blake-
- 2026-06-29 14:25:15
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a836f40933189f18dd936dd775a8a39536bc4917 ANW-2831 Add job_types stub to ResourcesController spec (#4153)]
- by Zeff https://github.com/Zeff
- 2026-06-29 10:31:43
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/81347a497be7fe7ad6281d9310fd60be6c972bfe Merge pull request #4158 from archivesspace/ANW-2759-release-notes-fix]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios