{"id":1721,"date":"2023-10-13T02:54:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2023-10-13T02:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:54:26","slug":"documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Week 18 we were discussing the documentation of our work, before making, during making and post-making, its importance and the ways this can be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michele mentioned that during her PhD she had to make an 8 month pause and then return again and the documentation was very important to help get over this break. It reminded me of mine and that I&#8217;d learnt the importance of documentation long ago, and mine has got better the more research I have done. We had a 5 minute pause and I was able to go upstairs and grab my notes from the last couple of months of my PhD back in 1995. (I still have the data files on floppy disc, Zip disc, CD and on various hard drives too.) I have used these notes  for scientific publications, conferences and lectures for several years afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/PhD-doc001-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Process Flow Diagram - main components\" class=\"wp-image-1722\" width=\"548\" height=\"768\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Process Flow Diagram &#8211; main components<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/PhD-doc002-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Back of PFD was I a secret artist?\" class=\"wp-image-1723\" width=\"548\" height=\"768\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Back of PFD was I a secret artist?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/PhD-doc003-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Process Flow Diagram - Block Diagram\" class=\"wp-image-1724\" width=\"548\" height=\"768\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Process Flow Diagram &#8211; Block Diagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/PhD-doc004-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Extract from my PhD notes, a couple of months before submission\" class=\"wp-image-1725\" width=\"548\" height=\"768\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Extract from my PhD notes, a couple of months before submission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Week 18 we were discussing the documentation of our work, before making, during making and post-making, its importance and the ways this can be done. Michele mentioned that during her PhD she had to make an 8 month pause and then return again and the documentation was very important to help get over this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1721\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Documentation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,52,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-2-contextual-persp","category-1-2-oct","category-home","category-uncategorised","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}