Initial release July 2006 Written in PHP | Development status Inactive | |
Developer(s) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Stable release 3.21 / 6 July 2011; 5 years ago (2011-07-06) Repository [bzr://archonproject.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzrroot/archonproject archonproject.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzrroot/archonproject] | ||
Archon was an open source platform created by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign which is designed to allow archival repositories to more easily create and publish finding aids to their collections. It was created in response to a lack of easy methods for archivists to publish finding aids online. While the archival community had previously created content and data structures, such as Encoded Archival Description, implementation of these standards was difficult for many in the profession.
The project staff at Archon included Assistant University Archivist and Associate Professor of Library Administration - Chris Prom, Director and Archivist - Scott Schwartz, Lead Developers - Paul Sorensen and Chris Rishel and Developers - Kyle Fox and Mamta Singh.
In 2008, Archon was honoured with the Andrew Mellon Foundation Award for Technology Collaboration.
Beginning in 2009, Archon and Archivists' Toolkit (a similar tool) began the process of merging the two platforms. This new software, ArchivesSpace, was developed in 2012-2013 and had a 1.0 release in September 2013. As of January 2014, Archon has become unsupported software and the project has been merged with ArchivesSpace.