ArchivesSpace Monthly Update - October 2025

[Bailey-Grace Harrell]

Explore the ArchivesSpace upcoming schedule at a glance!

October Monthly Update Schedule at a glance   Nov 27-28 | The Lyrasis office will be closed. Happy Thanksgiving!  Dec 10 | Live Demonstration: Overview of the ArchivesSpace application and member benefits Dec 24 - Jan 1| The Lyrasis office will be closed. Happy Holidays! Announcing ArchivesSpace's new Standards and Testing Archivist   We are happy to announce that Martha Tenney will soon be joining ArchivesSpace in the new position of Standards and Testing Archivist.   Martha has been active in archives and open-source communities for over a decade. Since 2013, she has been at Barnard College’s Archives and Special Collections. In roles including Director and Digital Archivist, Martha has been responsible for all facets of running a busy archives and implementing the software applications it needs.   As ArchivesSpace’s Standards and Testing Archivist, Martha will work closely with the Metadata Standards and Testing sub-teams to support their activities, as well as special projects to advance our capacity for these areas. One of her first projects will be to develop an official ArchivesSpace to ISAD(g) crosswalk and a set of tooltips to match for use by institutions who use this as their content standard.   Read the full article on the ArchivesSpace blog here > Member Match First Friday Events Ongoing The Member Engagement Sub-team continues the Member Match First Friday Breaks, an monthly informal meeting held on the first Friday of each month at 12:30pm-1:30pm/9:30am-10:30am PT.    This November 7th, the Member Engagement sub-team invites all Member Match participants to join us for an hour to discuss all things ArchivesSpace and beyond. This is an opportunity for participants to meet other program participants outside their match and to interact with the team without an agenda.    If you are a current Member Match participant interested in attending these sessions, please check the announcement in the member match listserv for connection information.    This event occurs monthly until June. The next meeting will be November 7th.    We hope to see you there, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!   Save the date: December 9th at 12:30 EST will be our Member Match Quarterly mixer, co-hosted with the User Documentation Sub-team. Please stay tuned to the Member Match Listserv for registration information. Lyrasis Community Supported Technologies Interoperability Project   (from Lyrasis, ArchivesSpace’s Organizational Home)  The Lyrasis Organizational Home recently announced the launch of the CST Interoperability Project. This project is one of the initiatives supported by the CST Growth Fund, a million-dollar investment from Lyrasis’ reserves designed to help community-supported technologies (CSTs) grow for the future.   The CST Interoperability Project will enhance interoperability of each of the CSTs in the Lyrasis Organizational Home family: ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, DSpace, Fedora and VIVO. This project will equitably support each of these important technologies, and center community, sustainability and interoperability. Jessica Farrell of Redstart Works, a digital archives consultancy, has been retained for the first phase of the project, which will work with communities to identify high priority interoperability workflows and define functional requirements. The final deliverable for this phase, planned for summer 2026, is a requirements package for application integrations that can be handed off to developers in a phase II of this project for implementation. The specifications will include examples of real-world use cases, diagrams of system interactions, dependencies to be developed or addressed before implementation, and recommendations for change management.    More about this project is available on the Lyrasis blog. We will have information about ways in which ArchivesSpace community members can participate as the project progresses. Membership update   We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Some of our new members since September 30th include:  Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA University of Maryland Global Campus | Adelphi, MD As of October 31st, we have 543 General members, 25 Educational Program members, 2 Registered Service Providers, 3 Consortium Providers, and 1 Affiliate.   Thank you to our current ArchivesSpace members for your contribution to the development and sustainability of the ArchivesSpace application.  ArchivesSpace has a membership model to support the continued development of the application and user community and ArchivesSpace members are eligible for a variety of benefits.  If you are interested in ArchivesSpace membership for your organization, email us at Archives...@lyrasis.org.