In general terms, documentation is any communicable material (such as text, video, audio, etc., or combinations thereof) used to explain some attributes of an object, system or procedure. It is often used to mean engineering or software documentation, which is usually paper books or computer readable files (such as HTML pages) that describe the structure and components, or on the other hand, operation, of a system/product.

A professional whose field and work is more or less exclusively to write documentation is called a documenter. Normally, documenters are trained or have a background in technical writing, along with some knowledge of the subject(s) they are documenting. Often, though, some part or all of the documentation process is done by the engineers responsible for the system/product to be documented.

By engineers, perhaps among software engineers in particular, documentation is often referred to as the "boring side" of engineering, or considered a necessary evil. This is largely unavoidable since most engineers prefer building things to documenting them, and being implicit experts in what they have built, they may have little motivation in documenting their creations so that others may understand them.

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@SPNWVGirl Dude, I want documentation of this. Can use it on my soon to be ex-brother in law.
AkakoDukes (Jennifer Chaney) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:21:06 -0000
@SPNWVGirl Dude, I want documentation of this. Can use it on my soon to be ex-brother in law.
@nazt http://code.google.com/intl/th-TH/apis/maps/documentation/services.html
disscovery (Noppawong) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:17:14 -0000
@nazt http://code.google.com/intl/th-TH/apis/maps/documentation/services.html
@jenndrumm22 you had legal tanzanian documentation!
dudepal2021 (Dusty Rose) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:16:57 -0000
@jenndrumm22 you had legal tanzanian documentation!
@RafaeliCecile I suppose there isn't any pictorial documentation of your NYE gorgeousness?
seanpadilla (Sean P of C.Spaniels) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:16:11 -0000
@RafaeliCecile I suppose there isn't any pictorial documentation of your NYE gorgeousness?
Do Your Employees Understand Your E-mail Documentation Practices? - http://bit.ly/iXCqG
loriavilla (lori) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:10:03 -0000
Do Your Employees Understand Your E-mail Documentation Practices? - http://bit.ly/iXCqG
MTCalendarIfEntries (ブロックタグ) http://www.movabletype.jp/documentation/appendices/tags/calendarifentries.html
MT_Tags (MT_Tags) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:03 -0000
MTCalendarIfEntries (ブロックタグ) http://www.movabletype.jp/documentation/appendices/tags/calendarifentries.html

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