Archivematica is a web- and standards-based, open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content.

Our target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects.

You are free to copy, modify, and distribute the Archivematica documentation with attribution under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) license. See the LICENCE file for details.

Thank you for considering a contribution to the Archivematica documentation! For more information on contributing, please see the Archivematica docs Github wiki. The wiki describes the change submission process for the Archivematica docs and includes a style guide for new contributions. Following these guidelines helps us assess your changes faster and makes it easier for us to merge your submission.

Note that some documentation lives in separate repositories:

• archivematica-docs: This repository! Contains the main user and administrator documentation.
• archivematica-storage-service-docs: Contains documentation for the Storage Service, Archivematica's archival storage management system.

If you have a security concern about Archivematica or any of its companion repositories, please see the Archivematica security policy for information on how to safely report a vulnerability.