Difference between revisions of "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

Latest revision as of 15:08, 8 June 2021

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

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]; by github-actions[bot]
2025-05-14 15:55:37: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.1.0 v4.1.0]; by github-actions[bot]
2025-05-02 04:30:43: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.0.0 V4.0.0]; by github-actions[bot]

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2026-02-02 09:19:51: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d6860e0ad32905ebf10ffcad6cad57be99bbe061 Merge pull request #3914 from archivesspace/update-js-top-level-depen…]; by thimios https://github.com/thimios
2026-01-30 21:48:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/93b9823e895872d50a5cd84b4678f7c9d3e0ce04 Update prettier config and fix new formatting errors]; by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
2026-01-30 21:48:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/9ee74cdf6ff1294764a15b623e9f4b222d54d47e Update stylelint config and fix new style lint errors]; by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
2026-01-30 21:48:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a9550bcf6a138c4af99d31490f37e37e4becb4b2 Migrate eslint config to the new v9 'flat config']; by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip
2026-01-30 21:48:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2df369fdef37fa49a077fdcdbb4864b7a01db51e Upgrade JS top level dev dependencies]; by brianzelip https://github.com/brianzelip

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