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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Minutes from our first community development meetings are now available online #digipres #archives www.artefactual.com/post/introdu...

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

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...

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...

AtoM 2.9.1 has been released! Lots of community contributions in this one 🫶 www.artefactual.com/post/growing...

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

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 your AIPril baskets be full of aips - oops we mean eggs! Hoppy Easter from all of us at Artefactual.

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...

For immediate release: www.artefactual.com/post/april-1...

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...

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

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-...

Sarah Mason wrote a blog post about her work with the Archivematica and Access to Memory contributor communities www.artefactual.com/post/gatheri...

We are putting together our calendar of meetings and conferences to attend for 2025. First up: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory at the University of London. Who else is going? #archives #digipres www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

We wish everyone a very joyous holiday season and a restful one too! We are taking some time off but we will be back to (mostly) regular scheduled programming next week.

Extra, extra, read all about it - what a week for our much-loved AtoM - 2000 members in the user forum! www.artefactual.com/post/2000-me...

Hello to everyone that i used to follow on the old place but have met here since. I made this starter pack for #digitalpreservation on here. Apologies to the many I have overlooked. Here we go: go.bsky.app/7GdMRS3 #dpc #digipres

The DPC has been sharing and promoting a TON of great stuff today for #wdpd2024 including a post by @kellystewart.bsky.social on 2 sides to our #digipres community: slow and cautious vs fast and free. Which one are you? www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/bl...

Spent today finalizing the Call for Future Hosts for the sensational #ipres conference series. If you're interested in #digitalpreservation and want 500 of the world's top expers to drop in, then watch this space. It's an amazing thing . Announcement is due on Monday. #dpc #digipres

On Thursday we are going to be talking about our work with the University of Glasgow Archives at the #dpc Digital Preservation Futures webinar series. If you’re a DPC member, we’d love to see you there www.dpconline.org/events/event...

Hello iPres friends! This is the last day to grab one of our delightful (we think) stickers. We don't want to take them all the way home to Canada so feel free to come by our table and grab lots to bring home to your colleagues! #ipres2024

Kate Murray presenting embARC a FOSS tool from FADGI at the #iPres2024 bake off. Doing a great job making the audience laugh with the kitchen metaphors “and all the rest IS gravy” when the time ran out 😆

Today’s BakeOff day at #iPres2024 Come see what Arty’s cooking up and hear @justinsimpson.bsky.social explain why we build tools in the way we do.

In case you’re wondering where to find us in Ghent 😉

Sara Janes tells a tale from Lakehead University in a lightning talk at #iPres2024 about 200 3.5” floppy disks from 1994-2007 😱 ingested into Archivematica. Good news: more of their files were retrievable than expected!

If you don’t know why we have this funny character on a lot of our #iPres2024 stickers and swag, here’s Arty’s backstory www.artefactual.com/arty

Open source and open access being talked about in today’s #iPres2024 plenary about the Atlas of Lost Finds. “We don’t really understand why it is so hard” to make things open. “Open protects heritage.” Preeeeeeach!

814 delegates at #iPres2024 from across the globe

Who remembers the Bag Bags? We checked our backlog and found 15 of them. Come by our #iPres2024 table to pick one up! www.artefactual.com/post/let-s-g...

Last night’s DPC awards ceremony was an impressive list of people doing cool things. We were too busy clapping to take more than this photo but suffice to say all of the work was inspiring. Pssst @williamkilbride.bsky.social do you need more judges next year?! #iPres2024

Our newest sticker is a re-issue. The past is open. Setting up in the Bijloke and looking forward to a week of #digipres community at #ipres2024

One week today we will be at iPres in G(h)ent! You can always just pop by and see us but if you'd like to go for a coffee, have a personal demo of our software, or make time to get into something detailed - book a spot in Chief Archivist Kelly's calendar for a 1:1 www.artefactual.com/artefactual-...

Ruh roh, this afternoon is your last chance to find us at the booth because we need to take down so the folks at #ara2024 can enjoy the gala dinner tonight. Come by and say hi (or not, no talking required) and grab a sticker!

Day two of #ara2024 and we are READY for your questions. Come by the booth and grab a sticker. @kellystewart.bsky.social does NOT want to lug them back home to Vancouver. What will the customs folks say?

Hello #ara2024! It's a lot of effort to do these .05 ussies but we managed it (sort of). Come by and say hi, we have stickers!!

ARA is ON! In fact, I expect that @kellystewart.bsky.social and @justinsimpson.bsky.social are at the opening reception right now! Starting tonight this account will be taken over by our Chief Archivist who will share her thoughts and observations on #ara2024 www.artefactual.com/post/ara-is-on

Our Chief Archivist has landed! Consider following Kelly if you are going to be at the @araukie.bsky.social conference next week. You can sign up for a 1:1 demo or conversation with her too, about any of Artefactual's services in the UK. www.artefactual.com/ara-landing-...

In just over a month we will be in Birmingham for the #ARA2024 conference! Come by our booth to say hello 👋 tinyurl.com/4bpjrt72

Great News! Artefactual has launched a new commercial service. Read all about it www.artefactual.com/post/your-ch...

As of today we are officially part of Jisc’s new dynamic purchasing system for digital preservation (that’s a DPS for a DPS #digipres🤔) www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/new...

We’re here. We have stickers. We want to talk open source and digital preservation. Come say hi. #IDCC2024

As the new year gets underway so too do our plans for connecting with our community and clients. We will be in Edinburgh soon for #IDCC24. "Trust through Transparency" is a theme that spoke to us and we would love to talk to you about it if you're in the neigbourhood! dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc24