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]
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- 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]
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- 2026-06-09 13:01:44
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/29e180b297c302099b6f1ca204183205adfee9c6 Merge pull request #4117 from archivesspace/agentcontacttypo]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-06-08 20:41:36
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/baedbf6aaab5ca7ce21e2f37dc839239086d3af0 small locale typo]
- by cdibella https://github.com/cdibella
- 2026-06-08 15:37:49
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/45f0dfc69e0bd8df726c3246ad8461d94cfac55b Merge pull request #4113 from archivesspace/ANW-652-classifications-s…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-06-08 11:13:03
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3040e7af7893af50ce17548b896b71043c2a126b Translated using Weblate (Italian) (#4112)]
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- 2026-06-05 17:50:38
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b12fcf96bc3a26d83ba0785a5c80fd2d7f3e6854 ANW-2762 trying to link a resource to a classification with many link…]
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