Using ArchivesSpace Outside the US
While our current membership is concentrated in the United States, we welcome institutions from anywhere in the world to our community. Here are some additional resources that may be especially helpful as you consider whether ArchivesSpace is right for your institution.same archivesspace, Different Needs
Many institutions outside the United States use ArchivesSpace for their archives information management needs. To go with its functionality for supporting many different archives functions, the application can be used in many different standards and language contexts. If the settings in the default ArchivesSpace do not suit your needs, they can be changed locally.
Language support
ArchivesSpace has been fully translated into five languages — English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish — with more language translations in progress. We make use of an open source translation software called Weblate to enable the translation of the application to any language.
Standards Support and Data Mapping
ArchivesSpace supports a variety of metadata standards including EAD, EAC-CPF, MARCXML, MODS, Dublin Core, and METS formatted data. The application also allows for the importing and exporting of data via XLSX and CSV. The application uses the American content standard for archives, DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), as the out-of-the-box standard. It can be adapted to work with international standards like ISAD(g) as well.
Tooltips and labels in the out-of-the-box application refer to names of elements and citations in DACS. These customizable areas can be changed locally to reflect other standards or internal best practices. Referring to our data maps may also help in crosswalking from one standard to another.
ArchivesSpace has had a transformative impact on the management and accessibility of our vast and complex archives metadata. Its active development and the strength of a large, welcoming community of member institutions were decisive factors in our decision to implement it.
Who's Using ArchivesSpace outside the U.S.
Current ArchivesSpace member organizations include:
Acme Studios (London, United Kingdom)
ADVN Archives for National Movements (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Archiefbureau Ruerd de Vries (Lichtaard, Netherlands)
ARCMTL (Montréal, Canada)
Black Cultural Archives (London, United Kingdom)
British School at Rome (Rome, Italy)
Cambridge University Libraries (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, NT, China)
Christchurch City Libraries (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Fundación Juan March (Madrid, Spain)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Invercargill City Council (Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand)
Letterenhuis (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Lingnan University (Tuen Mun, China)
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka (Tokyo, Japan)
National Centre for Biological Sciences (Bangalore, India)
National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad & Tobago (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
National Library of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Presbyterian Church of Victoria Archives (Melbourne, Australia)
Queensland State Archives (Runcorn, Australia)
Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)
State Library Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
The Hurlingham Club (London, United Kingdom)
The University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh United Kingdom)
University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, China)
University of Oxford (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Educational Program Members
Cairo University
University of Amsterdam
University College Dublin
University College London
ArchivesSpace — the application and the community — have been very instrumental to us in setting up a quick and an iterative workflow to disseminate archivists’ work for the public. This has enabled us to meet our public access objectives efficiently and also encouraged us to present ArchivesSpace as a positively viable option for records management to a small but a growing, web-first archives community in India.
Finding Your Membership Level
Wherever you are in the world, determining your membership level depends on the type of institution
For academic organizations, your membership level would be based on either your JISC band (for those in the UK) or your JSTOR classification. If you don’t know or have a JSTOR classification, you can reach out directly to JSTOR for that information. You do not need to subscribe to JSTOR to be an ArchivesSpace member.
For non-academic or free standing archives, your membership level would be determined by the number of FTE (full time equivalent) employees at your organization. FTE thresholds apply to the organization as a whole, not only the archives. For non-cultural heritage institutions (for example, the department of records and archives within a local government or the library of a orchestra), however, these levels apply to the part of the institution responsible for the cultural heritage mission.
We use these levels to determine institutional capacity and to make sure we are applying our membership levels and their associated fees fairly across the community. Please contact us at ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org if you have any questions about your membership level.
I have a small company in the Netherlands for archives of religious institutes (churches and so on) and since about ten year I’m using ArchivesSpace. After trying other programs I chose ArchivesSpace, and I’m still glad I did. ArchivesSpace is, compared with other programs used in the Netherlands not expensive, it is easy to use, and ArchivesSpace is very helpfull when there are problems. In short, I really recommend ArchivesSpace for users inside and outside the USA.