By Artefactual
Archivematica is a web- and standards-based, open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content. Our target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects.
You are free to copy, modify, and distribute Archivematica with attribution under the terms of the AGPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
- Website for the user and administrator documentation
- Presentations repo and YouTube channel for previous trainings and talks
- Case studies repo for a collection of resources about working on and with Archivematica
- User Group is a forum/mailing list for user questions (both technical and end-user)
- Paid support is for paid support, hosting, training, consulting and software development contracts from Artefactual
- Archivematica API documentation for getting to know the Archivematica API
- Developer guide is the developer facing documentation, requirements analysis and community resources
- Issues is the Git repository used for tracking Archivematica issues and feature/enhancement ideas
- The Archivematica roadmap contains current release information and potential future works
Thank you for your interest in Archivematica!
For more details, see the contributing guidelines.
Read about our guidelines for making pull requests, including contribution standards, and make any documentation updates reflecting the changes introduced by your contribution.
Our Contributors Portal contains useful background information and instructions on translations in Archivematica.
You might have questions about the history of development decisions: find answers in the Architectural Decisions Record.
Our current release notes are available on GitHub. Release notes since version 0.6 are available in the RELEASENOTES file.
Issues related to Archivematica, the Storage Service, or any related repository can be filed in the Issues repository.
Read our guide about issue reporting.
If you have a security concern about Archivematica or any related repository, please see the SECURITY file for information about how to safely report vulnerabilities.
Archivematica consists of several projects working together, including:
- Archivematica: This repository! Main repository containing the user-facing dashboard, task manager MCPServer and clients scripts for the MCPClient
- Storage Service : Responsible for moving files to Archivematica for processing, and from Archivematica into long-term storage
- Format Policy Registry : Submodule shared between Archivematica and the Format Policy Registry (FPR) server that displays and updates FPR rules and commands
For more projects in the Archivematica ecosystem, see the list on the dependencies page of the Contributors Portal.