Research Questions

Trying to come up with a research question has been challenging, and I think I need to research the digital archive literature to see what kinds of questions arise from what has already been examined. Some things I am interested in finding out are the mechanics of a digital archive (software, hardware, etc), usage of digital archives (remotely, on site, students, researchers, staff), selection processes and statistics (number/percentages of material digitized and why), institutional use of digital archives (comparing archives across the US, looking at to what extent they use digital archives).

I think the institutional use of digital archives seems feasible for this research proposal. It is a topic that has the potential to be studied from a distance, since digital archives are primarily web-based. My next step will be to see if there is any literature on the topic and if this issue has already been recently addressed. If that's the case, I may need to reformulate my topic, or the literature may support my research without already answering my question.