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
Release Feed
Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2026-04-07 12:59:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0 V4.2.0]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 2026-03-16 19:35:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-RC1 V4.2.0-RC1]
- by github-actions[bot]
- 2026-02-27 19:12:14
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4989765/v4.2.0-test v4.2.0-test]
- by thimios
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-05-06 17:55:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/39315abf67d373e5066a18b20906557dc9f24c40 Merge pull request #4069 from archivesspace/common_enums]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-05-06 17:54:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a42bee00db3bbcfed5765a9e51fb8e0de013d473 Merge pull request #4068 from archivesspace/common_locales]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios
- 2026-05-06 16:11:41
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/30b4c2b67bb23e3f10b3cf4b4756708ddbdf1c95 enums translated using Weblate (Italian)]
- by Laura.Sinhur@lyrasis.org
- 2026-05-06 11:55:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f13de19581eba6790713a1aa095f0c35b2258b1f ANW-2725 post-4.2.0 E2E test additions - accessions (#4065)]
- by MarthaTenney https://github.com/MarthaTenney
- 2026-05-05 23:33:21
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3d577d3282f5d5aabc4d647e474b430e8781bb25 ANW-2726 perform e2e test suite related scans before running the e2e …]
- by thimios https://github.com/thimios