Artefactual Systems

New year, more community 2026 is almost two months gone and the community has been as involved as ever. Both the AtoM and Archivematica projects have been busy with community-reported issues and pull requests. Recently, both ...

Curious about our next release of AtoM or Archivematica? Wondering where we are in the release cycle? Want to contribute, but not sure how? The latest community update has resources to answer those questions and more.

www.artefactual.com/post/new-yea...

Flight delays couldn’t even stop us from making it to #IDCC2026 ✈️🙌

Thank you to everyone who came to listen to our Head of Customer Success’ lightning talk on AIPS (a Data-Centric Approach to Preservation).

It was a wonderful few days connecting at IDCC!

Despite travel chaos we are here in Zagreb with some BIG preservation energy and very pleased to sponsor #IDCC26

🤝Sponsor update!

@artefactual.com al.com has agreed to sponsor #IDCC26

@artefactual.com actual.com is a Canadian-based professional services and open source software development company dedicated to the stewardship of open source digital access and preservation software

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Understanding AtoM to RiC Mappings in Mnemian Working with linked data is different. We believe that starting with a simple subset of RiC is a practical way of seeing results quickly.

Just a reminder that the next Mnemian workshop is tomorrow! Register and join us to discuss and provide feedback on mappings to help shape a new path from ISAD to RiC!
www.eventbrite.com/e/understand...

Understanding AtoM to RiC Mappings in Mnemian Working with linked data is different. We believe that starting with a simple subset of RiC is a practical way of seeing results quickly.

Join the next Mnemian workshop on January 29th to join the discussion and provide feedback on mappings to help shape a new path from ISAD to RiC. Register here to come listen or contribute! www.eventbrite.com/e/understand...

Mnemian Project Update An update on Mnemian's development

Reminder, the Project Mnemian introduction and update is Tomorrow, January 13th, at 9:00AM GMT or 5:00PM GMT. Registration is still open here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mnemian-pr...

Are you curious about Project Mnemian? Join Artefactual and Imagiz on January 13, 2026 (9:00AM GMT or 5:00PM GMT) for a 1-hour introduction and update on the Project Mnemian. Register to join us and learn more! www.eventbrite.com/e/mnemian-pr...

End of year community update Winter has arrived and with it holidays and reflections. As we prepare for 2026, we look back at 2025 and take the lessons we have learned with us. We already knew that people were passionate about th...

The last community update of the year is here! Read about the latest contributor gatherings and check out our updated project roadmaps. And We'll be opening our community development meetings to any contributor from January - March in 2026. www.artefactual.com/post/end-of-...

November Community Update This is not quite the last community post of the year, but 2025 is nearly to a close and preparations are underway for next year already. Both the AtoM and the Archivematica roadmaps have been updated...

We've been updating our project community pages to reflect the current resources and activities available for AtoM and Archivematica. Check them out and learn more: www.artefactual.com/post/novembe...

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...

Happy World Digital Preservation Day!

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

Seize the means of preservation!

www.artefactual.com/post/happy-w...

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

From the Rogers Centre to #ICABarcelona2025. Our booth's got some major league energy (😉) - supporting the Jays all the way from Barcelona! 💙🇨🇦🇪🇸

#ICA2025 #BlueJays

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

3rd international conference Digital libraries Tools for(ever) Digital Preservation Open-Source software repositories: Archivematica, Fedora Commons, ROAD, Tape libraries and archiving systems, HP, IBM Quantum. October 15, 2025 9:30 CEST ON-LINE Free registration: https://forms.office.com/e/Mne6g04WhF%E2%80%8B You are invited by IFLA Preservation and Conservation Center National Library of Poland Competence center for library digitization

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
polona.pl/static/polon...
free and online

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...

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...

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.

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...

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!

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...

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

Introducing community development meetings Contributors are an integral part of any open source project. For the last six months we have been building ways to increase contributions and foster relationships between contributors and our project...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

And,

As our company grows, openness becomes more important.

(Not less)

#opensource #digipres #archives

We can still be successful without restricting the value of our work to only those who pay us. #opensource #digipres #archives