n.an open-source software application for information management in archivesMatienzo and Kott 2013ArchivesSpace (http://www.archivesspace.org/) builds on the foundation established by Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) and Archon to support management and accessibility to collections of archival material (Prom, et al, 2007; Westbrook, et al, 2007). ArchivesSpace originated as a project partnership between the New York University Libraries (NYU), University of California San Diego Libraries (UCSD), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Libraries (UIUC). The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided generous support for ArchivesSpace. The purpose of the project is to develop a next-generation open source archives management system to address technical limitations of AT and Archon, including scalability and extensibility. In addition, a unified product should encourage a wider rate of adoption than has been feasible with the two complementary products.Santamaria 2013, 159In late 2009, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funding for a project titled ArchivesSpace, designed to integrate the best features of Archon and the Archivists’ Toolkit into a single application.ArchivesSpace 2020Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.
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ArchivesSpace is the joint successor of Archon and Archivists’ Toolkit.
