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Although digital archives ensure long-term preservation and wider access to important historical, cultural, and administrative evidence as primary sources of information, existing archive management system cannot contribute to education and research as expected. The basic reason is lack of cooperation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing practice among stakeholders, users, and archive staffs. Accordingly, this research aims to develop a value proposition framework integrating different archival service entities. Therefore, this study reviewed literature and analyzed primary data collected from person in-charge of 68 local archive centers of Japan. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS and SmartPLS. Result shows that archival value co-creation is associated with stakeholders’ involvement, staff’s motivation, users’ participation, and organizational effectiveness. Each component has different essence in …