ArchivesSpace

ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories.
Homepage:	http://www.archivesspace.org/
License:	Educational Community License, version 2.0.
Input Formats:	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Output Formats:	METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
Function:	Access,Metadata Processing
Content type:	Metadata

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

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/commits

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2025-07-02 14:58:27

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.1 V4.1.1]

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2025-05-14 15:55:37

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.0 v4.1.0]

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2025-05-02 04:30:43

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.0.0 V4.0.0]

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Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2025-07-09 13:36:53

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7a83b95b57f544f211230acc2a9e0d7d486fc6d2 Merge pull request #3652 from mark-cooper/ANW-2134_dockerfile-update]

by thimios https://github.com/thimios

2025-07-07 11:12:40

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/aa510a504dcbbab96ff0e36c150f49a4a6db1a1c Merge pull request #3653 from archivesspace/ANW-2442-staff-tree-suppr…]

by thimios https://github.com/thimios

2025-07-06 13:52:47

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/9fca993d650748c6898b146dc90b72e408937ccd fix: Suppressed badge in staff tree]

by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip

2025-07-03 00:51:02

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/08387d3d40f17f5561087bb38a4d3c4ed492156b Dockerfile updates]

by mark-cooper https://github.com/mark-cooper

2025-06-30 17:10:52

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d62da6e129e27764297424d73f45894d7f971def Merge pull request #3644 from archivesspace/frontend_locales]

by thimios https://github.com/thimios