Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) / Free Software and web applications

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. —from github/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted



  • Access to Memory (AtoM) – Web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment. (DemoSource Code) AGPL-3.0-only PHP
  • Archivematica – Mature digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. (DemoSource Code) AGPL-3.0-only Python
  • ArchiveBox – Self-hosted “wayback machine” that creates HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources. (DemoSource Code) MIT Python
  • ArchivesSpace – Archives information management application for managing and providing Web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects. (DemoSource Code) ECL-2.0 Ruby
  • Collective Access: Providence – Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data types, and media formats. (Source Code) GPL-3.0-only PHP