To all who are interested in Archives: This is what the future looks like! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frederic Grevin <FGrevin@nycedc.com> Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:48 PM Subject: FW: [archives] ArchivesSpace Development Grant awarded To: Thomas Surprenant <thomas.surprenant@qc.cuny.edu> *From:* mark.matienzo@gmail.com [mailto:mark.matienzo@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark A. Matienzo *Sent:* Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:52 AM *To:* Archives & Archivists (A&A) List *Subject:* [archives] ArchivesSpace Development Grant awarded**** New York University Libraries, in partnership with UC San Diego Libraries and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries, has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a partnership in developing the software that integrates the Archivists' Toolkit (AT) and Archon into an open-source, next-generation archives management system. The integrated product, known by the working title ArchivesSpace ( www.archivesspace.org), will capitalize on the functional strengths of AT and Archon, both of which were released in 2006, to create a more powerful, flexible, and resilient archives collection management and access system.*** * For more information, see the press release<http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2011/07/22/nyu-libraries-and-partners-developing-next-generation-archives-management-system-with-grant-from-mellon-foundation.html>. <http://forens.es/8>**** Mark A. Matienzo**** Technical Architect, ArchivesSpace**** -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies