A large literature addresses the processes, circumstances and motivations that have given rise to archives. These questions are increasingly being asked of digital archives, too. Here, we examine the complex interplay of institutional, intellectual, economic, technical, practical and social factors that have shaped decisions about the inclusion and exclusion of digitised newspapers in and from online archives. We do so by undertaking and analysing a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with public and private providers of major newspaper digitisation programmes. Our findings contribute to emerging understandings of factors that are rarely foregrounded or highlighted, yet fundamentally shape the depth and scope of digital cultural heritage archives and thus the questions that can be asked of them, now and in the future. Moreover, we draw attention to providers’ emphasis on meeting the needs of their end-users and how this is shaping the form and function of digital archives. The end user is not often emphasised in the wider literature on archival studies and we thus draw attention to the potential merit of this vector in future studies of digital archives.

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具有全球影响力但又处在特定环境中：对塑造历史报纸数字档案馆的隐式和显式选择标准的研究

大量文献讨论了引起档案的过程，情况和动机。数字档案馆也越来越多地被问到这些问题。在这里，我们研究了体制，知识，经济，技术，实践和社会因素之间复杂的相互作用，这些因素决定了在线档案中和从数字档案中是否包含数字化报纸的决策。为此，我们与主要报纸数字化计划的公共和私人提供商进行了一系列半结构化访谈，并进行了分析。我们的发现有助于人们对鲜为人知的，鲜为人知的因素形成新的理解，但这些因素从根本上影响了数字文化遗产档案的深度和范围，因此也影响了现在和将来的问题。而且，我们提请人们注意提供商对满足最终用户需求的重视，以及这如何影响数字档案馆的形式和功能。在有关档案研究的广泛文献中，最终用户通常不会受到重视，因此，我们提请注意此向量在数字档案馆的未来研究中的潜在优点。