Software Documentation: Identifying Authoritative Knowledge

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Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design

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Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design

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Summary

Because the typical quantity of knowledge in any real-life code base is huge, any attempt at making use of it involves discarding most of it, through a process of curation that itself adds value to the curated knowledge by focusing on the essentials.

Living curation, inspiring exemplars, highlighting the core, and providing guided tours and sightseeing maps are some possible approaches to curation that can highlight a subset of knowledge for a particular purpose.