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Commercial support for open source digital preservation and access software. Lead developers of the Enduro, Archivematica, and Access to Memory (AtoM) projects. Cake and stickers.

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Happy World Digital Preservation Day!

Head over to our site to check out our post about #WDPD2025

Seize the means of preservation!

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Happy World Digital Preservation Day!
Today, and everyday, we celebrate digital preservation and digital sovereignty. This years theme of “Why Preserve” could not feel more fitting. Our Chief Archivist had the opportunity to share a few w...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out to our lightning talk at #ICABarcelona2025! We also have a workshop in Room 123 at 17:00 on AI and RiC. Hope to see you soon!

We are having such a great time and have loved connecting with so many amazing people 💫 #ICA
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
From the Rogers Centre to #ICABarcelona2025. Our booth's got some major league energy (😉) - supporting the Jays all the way from Barcelona! 💙🇨🇦🇪🇸

#ICA2025 #BlueJays
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just 1 week to go until the ICA Congress in Barcelona where we are Bronze Sponsors! 🇪🇸
We’re excited to connect, collaborate and explore! We have with two presentations and a workshop on AI and RiC for Working Archivists #ICA2025 #ICABarcelona2025
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I am speaking at an online conference next week. Oct 15 9:30 CEST. IFLA Preservation and Conservation Center​, National Library of Poland​: Digital libraries: Tools for(ever) Digital Preservation
Open Source Tools supporting long term digital preservation
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free and online
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
ICYMI: on Friday we managed a double release! 🎉 Archivematica 1.18.0 (SS 0.24.0) & AtoM 2.10.0 are now both available! Please see release notes below for further information on dependency upgrades & enhancements.

AtoM: github.com/artefactual/...
Archivematica: wiki.archivematica.org/Archivematic...
September 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As Autumn makes itself known, we're edging closer towards releases for AtoM and Archivematica. Thank you to our community contributors for their work on these! August was busy with pull requests and bulk issue closures. Check out the latest contributor blog for more details.
A busy farewell to summer: Updates from the contributor community
The mornings grow cool and the days grow short as Autumn has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. The contributor community had a busy end of summer, submitting pull requests and commenting on issues i...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In July, the contributor community celebrated first-time contributions to Archivematica and more contributions to AtoM. We have also announced plans to close a number of inactive Archivematica issues at the end of August. Read more about this & our current release work in our recent post.
More news from the Contributor Community: July update
Up in the Northern Hemisphere we are well into summer; the time of year where things start to slow down a bit. But not for the contributor communities from the AtoM and Archivematica projects! July wa...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Back in June, we took the stage at the Archiving 2025 Conference! If you’re interested in learning more about Artefactual, we invite you to watch our short presentation on our blog for an insightful look into what we do!
On Stage in Spain: Artefactual at the Archiving 2025 Conference
In June, we had the pleasure of experiencing the European summer heat - along with an even warmer welcome at the Archiving 2025 Conference in beautiful Granada, Spain.We were thrilled to take the stag...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
June was a busy month for the AtoM and Archivematica contributor communities. Open source software is only as strong as the communities that support it; the future of both projects is looking bright.
Helping the Contributor Community Succeed: June update
June has been a busy month for the AtoM and Archivematica contributor communities! We hosted a Contributor Gathering and continued with Community Development Meetings for each open source project. Con...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We're on the move again! This week we are exhibiting at the Archiving 2025 Conference. If you are in Granada we would love to meet you. #digipres #archives #culturalheritage #archiving2025
June 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Kicking off DLM forum with a visit to the State Archives in Gdańsk and their story of protecting the materials in their custody during times of war #dlmforum
June 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It was a pleasure to be included as a case study discussing how it is possible to be both a commercial enterprise and work in the open, in alignment with our values. See "Shorthand falls short: Why open infrastructure defies simple labels" in the 2025 IOI report. investinopen.org/state-of-ope...
Signals from the field
Introduction: Signals from the field Because of the wide-ranging work we do at IOI, we often catch glimpses of emerging trends in open infrastructure and adjacent fields. In the 2024 report, we calle...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Archivematica 1.17.1 has been released! It's a minor release, addressing a fix in the Docker build. Installation instructions are linked in the release notes: wiki.archivematica.org/Archivematic...
Archivematica 1.17.1 release notes - Archivematica
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May 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
AtoM 2.9.1 has been released! Lots of community contributions in this one 🫶 www.artefactual.com/post/growing...
Growing community contributions: AtoM 2.9.1
Banner image designed by FreepikAtoM 2.9.1 was released this week with lots of bug fixes and some enhancements, including a Javascript challenge for human verification to prevent bot attacks (document...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you would like to read the full blog post about our views on openness and open source software, it has been posted on our website. Happy May 1st! www.artefactual.com/post/open-by... #opensource #digipres #archives #labourday #mayday
Open by Default: Towards a Manifesto for May Day
This is intended to be a statement to our customers, our user and developer communities, and our staff. By writing down our intentions in using open source software we move towards aligning our action...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Happy May Day! May is also Maintainer Month, highlighting the work of those who care for open source projects. Being open isn’t the only way to contribute to a practice of care but we think it is the best way. Today we are going to post some of our reasons why. #open #opensource #digipres #archives
May 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
May your AIPril baskets be full of aips - oops we mean eggs! Hoppy Easter from all of us at Artefactual.
April 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Based on your feedback we have brought back more formal roadmaps for both AtoM and Archivematica. Please take a look and contact our Community team if you have questions www.artefactual.com/post/roadmap...
Roadmaps now available for AtoM and Archivematica
Banner image designed by FreepikYou asked and we listened; you wanted to know more about what we are working on and we agree. Knowing our plans help you plan. As of today, we are reintroducing our roa...
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April 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
April 1, 2025
For immediate release[nope]
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April 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We've heard a rumour lately - that AtoM is no longer going to be updated or maintained. Not sure where this started but we want to set the record straight: for the foreseeable future Artefactual will continue to maintain, update, and support Access to Memory. www.artefactual.com/post/atom-st...
AtoM - still thriving, still describing
We think a lot about records here at Artefactual and today we want to set the record straight about AtoM. For the foreseeable future we will continue to maintain, update, and support Access to Memory ...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Artefactualities @kellystewart.bsky.social and @justinsimpson.bsky.social are in Amsterdam this week at the international symposium on the preservation of digital art. Don't be shy - come say hi if you are here! li-ma.nl/article/tran... #digipres
LI-MA - Living Media Art | Transformation Digital Art 2025
LI-MA's 2025 Symposium on preserving digital art. Explore challenges of conserving digital, performative, and processual artworks.
li-ma.nl
March 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New release means it's cake time! AtoM 2.9 is now available 🎉 This was a big one with a number of dependency updates to cover. Many thanks to all who contributed 🫶 Links and all the details can be found: www.artefactual.com/post/atom-2-...
AtoM 2.9.0 released this week
We are pleased to announce the release of AtoM 2.9.0 this week. This major release included large update work to bring ElasticSearch to version 6.8.3 and PHP support to 8.3, including a number of bug ...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM