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Description of a technical product
Technical documentation is a generic term for the classes of information created to describe the use, functionality, or architecture of a product, system, or service. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Technical documentationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Simplifying software compliance: AI technologies in drafting technical documentation for the AI ActInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Universal interface of TAUOLA: Technical and physics documentationCited 131 times
- Go sideways: ISO 128A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Specification (technical standard)A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Universal interface of TAUOLA: Technical and physics documentation
Sense and Sensibility in Technical Documentation
AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
Emplotting the Reader: Motivation and Technical Documentation
TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN LOW-COST HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION
Advances in Technical Documentation Processes improving Organizational Knowledge Transfer
Automatic technical documentation of lithic artefacts by digital techniques
Documentation in Technical Services
🆕 Influential since 2022
Simplifying software compliance: AI technologies in drafting technical documentation for the AI Act
Technical Note: Validation of Recon-3D, iPhone LiDAR for bullet trajectory documentation
On the documentation of self-admitted technical debt in issues
HWWI Commodity Price Index: A Technical Documentation of the 2023 Revision
Control technology of technical documentation of automation and telemechanics on transport
📚 Books worth reading
NASA/DoD aerospace knowledge diffusion research projectThomas E. Pinelli · 1990
A research primer for technical communicationMichael A. Hughes, George F. Hayhoe · 2007
Guidelines for developing instructionsKay Inaba, Stuart O. Parsons · 2004- 📕The rhetorical nature of XMLJ. D. Applen · 2008
Cross-cultural communicationThomas L. Warren · 2005- 📕Secondary Research Methods in the Built EnvironmentEmmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia · 2021
Technical information sourcesB. Houghton · 1967
Science and technologyDenis Joseph Grogan · 1970
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🔗 Related topics
- ISO 128 ISO 128 is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard covering the general principles of presentation in technical drawings, specifically…
- Specification (technical standard) A specification, colloquially spec, often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification…
- Conformance testing Conformance testing and also known as compliance testing or type testing, is testing or other activities that determine whether a process, product, or…
- Document management system A document management system (DMS) is a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage electronic files or documents. Some systems include…
- International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), (the preferred official pronunciation of the organizational name is: US: /ˈaɪ.soʊ/) is an independent…
- ISO 13485 ISO 13485 Medical devices -- Quality management systems -- Requirements for regulatory purposes is a voluntary standard, published by International Organization…
- ISO 8000 ISO 8000 is the international standard for Data Quality and Master Data. Widely adopted internationally it describes the features and defines the requirements…
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Software and systems engineering is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International…