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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- 2025-12-04 16:59:34
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/35ade10905e8e18fc1d862159735412f41d6e1c7 ANW-1831 Don't call fetchNode for largetree root row in expandNode]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2025-12-04 10:13:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7120c714ca0175ebde3c96af30fb549fb3d1389a Merge pull request #3798 from archivesspace/frontend_locales]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-04 10:12:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/aa420b8e521b8d9101cdb7ad275c6f96b7a9c37d Merge pull request #3801 from quoideneuf/cleanup-stranded-reports-code]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-03 17:21:26
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f0fa706eaafc774378f77a8f7eb563bf9d7a4290 remove stranded reports code]
- by quoideneuf https://github.com/quoideneuf
- 2025-12-03 17:00:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5995fa794e4cb8a7378e6d370dc85725f657dbcb Translated using Weblate (Ukrainian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org