The automated archive software I'm most familiar with is the one offered here (http://www.netspace.org/~shalott/archive/), as "Automated Archive". You can see it in action at 852 Prospect (http://www.852prospect.org/archive/cgi-bin/search.cgi) a rather ancient Sentinel archive, or the Yuletide archive (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi). Another archive, Axe-Bow (http://axebow.lcwsites.org/cgi-bin/upload.cgi), uses the link option.

I'm not familiar with eFiction, so if that turns out to be another name for the same software I apologize.

Regarding URLs, I can see where a link entered by a user could have problems, but I have to say that every archive I've seen in the past that relies on archivist-entries has sooner or later gone to the cobwebs. It's a lot of work--at the very least you need a system simple enough for multiple volunteers to enter items.