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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- 2025-05-02 04:30:43
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- 2025-12-05 21:00:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/766f0b63b9887640768f1df07b69efdf3ecac9b8 Translated using Weblate (Ukrainian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org
- 2025-12-05 21:00:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/211326c28d2941a879a58694c97b1cbf2d77777a Translated using Weblate (Ukrainian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org
- 2025-12-05 21:00:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d39e4a810aee1420fa892e17506d7deb92f7a8f4 Translated using Weblate (Ukrainian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org
- 2025-12-05 17:12:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d3c168fe569fe6cf8427571602c9cdbfc23b865d Merge pull request #3805 from archivesspace/ANW-1696-prefs-no-value-bug]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2025-12-05 16:37:57
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f2c46e54d2a8645f44d63cbd77c672834d8495c7 Translated using Weblate (Ukrainian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org