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== Download <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[[Install-0.7.1-alpha|Release 0.7.1-alpha]]</span> ==
* [[Archivematica_0.7.1_Release_Notes|Release notes]]

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== [[Documentation]] ==
* [http://archivematica.org/manual user manual]
* [http://youtu.be/dFPtDA4nAPY screencast demo]

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== [[Development|Developer resources]] ==
*[[Development roadmap]]
*[https://groups.google.com/group/archivematica Discussion list]
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== News ==

* November 21: [[Development_roadmap|Release 0.8-alpha]]
* October 19: [http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/ Access 2011] (Vancouver) presentation: [http://www.slideshare.net/peterVG999/access2011-van-garderen-occupy-the-memory part1] [http://www.slideshare.net/peterVG999/access2011-van-garderensuhonospart2 part2]
* August 22: Society of American Archivists 2011 conference [http://archivematica.org/downloads/2011-08-27-SAA-Chicago.pdf presentation] (Chicago)
* August 15: [http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_2011_grid CURATEcamp] (San Francisco)
* June 26: American Library Association 2011 conference. (New Orleans) (a) [http://connect.ala.org/node/150242 PREMIS in Archivematica] (b) [http://archivematica.org/downloads/2011-06-26-ALA-NewOrleans-Archivematica-DemystifyingDigitalPreservationSystems.pdf Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems]
* June 24: [[Archivematica_0.7.1_Release_Notes|Release 0.7.1-alpha]]
* June 6 - 7: U of Toronto iSchool [http://www.institute.ischool.utoronto.ca/coursedescription.asp?courseid=274 course] (Toronto)
* June 2: Association of Canadian Archivists [http://www.archivists.ca/sites/default/files/Attachments/professional_development/Conference_docs/2011_Toronto/aca_11_conference_at_a_glance.pdf 2011 conference] [http://archivematica.org/downloads/VanGarderen-Archivematica-2011-06-02-ACA-Toronto.pdf presentation] (Toronto)
* May 12: Preservation and Access Special Interest Group (PASIG) [http://archivematica.org/downloads/PASIG-VanGarderen-ArchivematicaOverview-2011-05-12.pdf presentation] (San Francisco)
* May 5: Lyrasis "Staying on TRAC" [http://bit.ly/lKbSX4 webinar]
* April 28: Archives Association of British Columbia [http://www.archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:AABCworkshop.pdf workshop] (Vancouver)
* Mar 31 - Apr 1: U of Toronto iSchool [http://www.institute.ischool.utoronto.ca/coursedescription.asp?courseid=274 course] (Toronto)
* Mar 28 - 29: U of Toronto iSchool [http://www.institute.ischool.utoronto.ca/coursedescription.asp?courseid=275 course] (Ottawa)
* Feb 18: [https://groups.google.com/group/archivematica/browse_thread/thread/2f63826769000d42?hl=en 0.7-alpha release]
* Feb 5: OLA Super Conference [http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/context/libr_pres/article/1032/type/native/viewcontent presentation] (slides 49-76)
* Jan 13: [http://www.snia.org/home/ SNIA] Open Standards for Digital Archiving [http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/24671 webcast]
* More [[News|news]]...

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== What is Archivematica? ==

Archivematica is a comprehensive [[wikipedia:Digital preservation|digital preservation]] system. Archivematica uses a [[micro-services]] design pattern to provide an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model.

Users monitor and control the micro-services via a web-based dashboard. Archivematica uses METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core and other best practice metadata standards. Archivematica implements [[media type preservation plans]] based on an analysis of the [[significant characteristics]] of file formats.

The [[overview]] section provides a detailed description of Archivematica's functionality and technical architecture. [http://youtu.be/dFPtDA4nAPY This screencast] gives a demo of the Archivematica 0.7.1-alpha release.

[[File:Dashboard-0.7.1.png|680px|thumb|center|Archivematica 0.7.1-alpha Dashboard]]

== Free and open source ==

Archivematica is free and open source software. The software applications integrated into Archivematica are each released under their own open source license. These are checked for license compatibility before they are integrated into the project. A full list of applications with their respective license is available on the [[External tools|external software tools]] page.

Any new software code created for the Archivematica project is released under a GPL version 2 license. The source code is available at [http://code.google.com/p/archivematica/source/list archivematica.googlecode.com]. All the system documentation found on this wiki is released under a Creative Commons license.

[[Contribute code|Code contributions]], [http://code.google.com/p/archivematica/issues/list bug reports], wiki [[Special:UserLogin|documentation updates]] along with questions and feedback in the [[chat room]] and [http://groups.google.ca/group/archivematica discussion list] are strongly encouraged and welcomed.

== Agile development ==

Digital preservation systems must implement strategies that deal with technology obsolescence and incompatibility to ensure that digital objects remain authentic, accessible and useable for future use. The technologies that create digital objects and the technology available to manage them are constantly changing. Therefore, the Archivematica project has established an [[wikipedia:Agile software development|agile software development]] methodology to manage the perpetual maintenance and development of the system. This methodology is focused on rapid, iterative release cycles, each of which improves upon the system's [[requirements]], [[software]], [[documentation]], and [[development]] resources.

==About==
This project is managed by [http://artefactual.com/archivematica.html Artefactual Systems] in collaboration with the UNESCO Memory of the World's [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1720&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Subcommittee on Technology], the [http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/ City of Vancouver Archives], the [http://diginit.library.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia Library], the [http://rockarch.org/ Rockefeller Archive Center] and a number of other collaborators.
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