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What is it and who is it for?

Digital Replay System (DRS) is designed for people who want to bring together disparate forms of digital media.  These might include video, transcriptions, log files, audio and more.  DRS is a next generation Computer Aided Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) tool.

The core concept of ‘digital records’ consists of 3 essential components:

1. Traditional qualitative data: audio recordings, video recordings, and other records which may be readily digitized including photographs, diagrams, documents, transcripts, etc.

2. System logs: computational recordings including recordings of underlying system states and events and of the human interaction and communication conducted through the use of a computer system, or logs produced through the application of computational techniques to traditional data.

3. Time: both traditional and system recordings are generated within and over time and have a temporal relationship, though not necessarily a direct correspondence, to one another.

Credits: DRS was developed by The Digital Records, or 'DReSS; Research node, based at The University of Nottingham. This is the part of NCeSS that produces tools and research which enable qualitative research to exploit heterogeneous forms of data.