NYU GETS MELLON GRANT FOR ARCHIVES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

New York University has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a partnership in developing the software that integrates Archon and the Archivists' Toolkit (AT) into an open-source, next-generation archives management system. The integrated product—known by the working title ArchivesSpace—will incorporate the best features and functions of Archon and AT.The project is a collaboration among the libraries of NYU; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Archon was developed; and the University of California, San Diego, which developed AT in partnership with NYU.