documentarian

Definitions

1. A person whose profession is to create documentary films.
2. A person who writes software documentation.
3. A person who cares about communication and documentation.
4. Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis.
   attributive, sometimes

Equivalents

4 more languages

Catalàdocumentalista

Suomidokumentaristi

Bahasa Indonesiadokumentalis

Svenskadokumentärfilmare

Examples

“As film tourism becomes a rising field of interest⟳, this portion of documentary history is in danger of repetition unless documentarians utilize the nobler ideas of documentary in order⟳ to cultivate a deeper understanding between people, filmmaker, and audience.”

“After you have⟳ gone through all these steps, you are ready to tackle your company's documentation problems. You have⟳ also become⟳ an experienced systems documentarian...”

“Have⟳ you considered hiring a technical writer or documentarian to assist in the production of user manuals?”

“Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include⟳ folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name⟳ for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope⟳ to change⟳ this.”

“...the developer with an aptitude for or an interest⟳ in writing assumes the task of documentarian.”

“I recently co-organised the Build⟳ your Docs career conference together with the Write⟳ the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical writing profession ... The talks provided lots of practical advice on how we can, as documentarians, learn⟳ in such a way as to maximise our potential for development in the future.”

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