What is Documentation

Documentation is a broad term used to describe the act of creating a record of a moment, event, or process. In the world of early childhood education, documentation is the act of observing, collecting notes, photos and artifacts (sometimes referred to as ‘raw documentation’); sharing, discussing and analyzing this collection (preferably with colleagues), determining a next step in the teaching and learning process to respond to what has been gathered and discussed, and collecting new documentation as learning proceeds. A culminating step of a documentation process (though not done for every curricular thread in the classroom) is the creation of a more final piece of documentation used to communicate the learning process and outcomes to the children, as well as other community members, such as parents and colleagues. This documentation might include photos, text, transcription, teacher reflections, and questions to provoke further thinking.

Documentation is related to structures, documents, data, and classification schemes. Documentation of knowledge aims at capturing codified knowledge as well as tacit experiences, competencies, and networks.

Documentation and information systems play a pivotal role in the management, maintenance, and guidance of any heritage conservation project. To preserve the cultural indicators in the form of texts, visuals, audio-videos resources, art forms, etc for the future generations is to be taken care to revert them to the past glory and historical feelings of pride and making them accessible to the present and future generations for research and dissemination through information systems. Best practices are to be adopted to collect the items of cultural importance and the ideal technical tools are to be used to preserve, document, manage, present/visualize and disseminate them. Making the digital collection accessible to the interested will enhance the visibility of the knowledge content of the region to conservation experts, administrators, and others concerned as well as for researchers at the global level.

The documents that are associated with a piece of software. There is usually user documentation, in the form of help files, tutorials, and manuals, and there can be developer documentation, such as programming guidelines and documents explaining the structure and workings of the software (source code). In some cases there is administrator documentation, which explains how to install and configure the software. The latter is more important for large pieces of software, where one installation will be used by many users, such as Web applications.

Words that describe what is to be done or what has been done, the formality of such words is up to individual development teams.

This is the practice of learners observing, recording, interpreting, and sharing the products of learning to deepen and extend learning (Krechevsky et al., 2013).

The process of classifying and annotating texts, photographs, etc.

Is the official account of care, treatment and interventions made by clinicians and logged in the health record.