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This October, ArchivesSpace will be participating in Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. Hacktoberfest is open to anyone who contributes pull requests to participating open source repositories on GitHub. Whether you’re new to ArchivesSpace development or a long-time contributor, we encourage you to get involved. No specific background or skill … Read More

Webinar Recording Webinar Q&A Christine Di Bella Presentation Slides Linda Colet Presentation Slides The next webinar in the Integrations with ArchivesSpace series will be Wednesday, September 16, at 2pm ET. Each webinar in this series highlights an integration with another application used in archives that ArchivesSpace members have worked on or requested. Our tenth webinar … Read More

Development We’re working on the next version of ArchivesSpace, which will come out later in the year. The major focus of work right now is finishing up expanding the agents module. We’re also working on enhancements to the spreadsheet importer, reviewing some substantial community pull requests, and gem upgrades. If you upgraded to 2.8.0, please … Read More

Thank you to all who have been contributing thoughts and suggestions to our continuing discussions around how ArchivesSpace can support and amplify efforts around antiracism and inclusion, and how ArchivesSpace itself can be more inclusive over the last few months. We announced at the Annual Forum yesterday that we’ve compiled the many ideas into a … Read More

Development ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.8.0. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.0. This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. Some items of note include the ability to merge top containers, new browse, search, and sort preferences in the staff interface, some … Read More

ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.8.0. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.0. This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. Some items of note include the ability to merge top containers, new browse, search, and sort preferences in the staff interface, some improvements … Read More

Registration is now open for the 6th Annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum! Just as in previous years, this will be a free opportunity for staff from ArchivesSpace member institutions to meet and share information with each other and the program team about all things ArchivesSpace.  Unlike previous years, ArchivesSpace will be holding its sixth Annual Member Forum virtually, on August 3-7, 2020, from 12pm-3pm ET each … Read More

Development The ArchivesSpace team is pleased to announce a release candidate, v2.8.0-rc1. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.0-rc1 or test it out without downloading at http://test.archivesspace.org/staff  (username admin /password admin). We encourage you to download and try it out with your own local setup and/or data for the most accurate results. The release candidate contains … Read More