The Latest from ArchivesSpace and Our Community

It is with regret that we announce that Lora Woodford will be leaving her position as ArchivesSpace Junior Developer to take a position with a government contractor working on open source solutions. Her last day will be November 19. She will be deeply missed by her fellow team members and the ArchivesSpace community. In her … Read More

Webinar recording Webinar slides Installing and configuring external Solr for ArchivesSpace screencast Technical documentation  ArchivesSpace will be offering a webinar on making the required move to external Solr for new ArchivesSpace releases on November 3rd at 2pm ET/11am PT.  In this webinar, members of the ArchivesSpace program team will provide background information about this necessary … Read More

  This October, ArchivesSpace will again 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 or GitLab.  Whether you’re new to ArchivesSpace development or a long-time contributor, we encourage you to get involved. No … Read More

Development ArchivesSpace v3.1 is currently available. ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v3.1.0. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/. This release includes a number of accessibility improvements, particularly to the public interface. Many of these were identified in an accessibility audit conducted by Deque across the open source applications that make their homes at LYRASIS, … Read More

We wanted to alert you to an upcoming change in the way the ArchivesSpace application is deployed. This change will not be noticeable to end users of the application, but it will affect those that install and maintain it for users.  Background ArchivesSpace uses Solr for its search platform. Since its original release in 2013, … Read More

Registration is now open for the four-session Virtual ArchivesSpace Basics Workshop on October 18, 20, 25 and 27, 2021 from 12:00pm-2:30pm ET / 9:00am-11:30am PT.  During this workshop, trainers from the ArchivesSpace Trainers Corps will cover some of the most frequently used areas of the ArchivesSpace application.  Attendees are expected to attend all 4 sessions … Read More

ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v3.1.0. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/. This release includes a number of accessibility improvements, particularly to the public interface. Many of these were identified in an accessibility audit conducted by Deque across the open source applications that make their homes at LYRASIS, which include DSpace, CollectionSpace, and ArchivesSpace. … Read More