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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- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
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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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- 2025-07-02 14:58:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.1 V4.1.1]
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Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-03-30 18:02:28
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5cb3d193222d61917ac9edf65d10e38ea9e728cb Add workflow to dispatch an event for the Tech Docs repo to consume (…]
- by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
- 2026-03-30 11:57:52
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5ede35ff28284908a8f3658b13dac7acf706f09a ANW-2617 Add an AppConfig option setting maximum allowable rows for a…]
- by lorawoodford https://github.com/lorawoodford
- 2026-03-30 11:38:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6980f8884e293b3f4c79c53f712ab6be06fa3097 Merge pull request #4010 from archivesspace/common_enums]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-30 10:31:02
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/ea6ab002cc9bafa6b913c53522a094e7f115f7e2 Merge pull request #4009 from archivesspace/ANW-2679-move-AO-transfer…]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-03-30 10:25:57
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e4f088a541a28366c4bb9db0131059583e749cd2 Merge branch 'master' into common_enums]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios