LYRASIS to be organizational home for ArchivesSpace

Submitted by annie_ucsd on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 11:15

LYRASIS will become the organizational home for the ArchivesSpace open source archives management system. The identification of LYRASIS as the organizational home for ArchivesSpace is an important step toward ensuring a sustainable future for the financial, technical, and governance life of the ArchivesSpace system. In turn, it ensures continuity for the hundreds of archives that now depend on the Archivists Toolkit (AT) or the Archon systems to support the management of and access to archives.
Engaging the ArchivesSpace user community in a new membership and governance structure will be the central factor in sustaining a vibrant software tool. LYRASIS' demonstrated ability to foster collaboration among its member libraries and other archival institutions positions it well to support this activity. Development of the ArchivesSpace software system is slated to commence in summer 2012, with release by the end of 2013.

For more information about the ArchivesSpace project, please visit http://www.archivesspace.org.

For the full press release, please visit http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2012/04/18/lyrasis-to-se...