The basic V&B principle states that documenting a software architecture involves documenting the relevant views, and then documenting information that applies to more than one view.
She told me that documenting how families and communities cope with these events has become a sort of necessity for her.
Consider Abdulkafi Alhamdo, a Syrian teacher and activist, who had taken Western politicians at their word and believed that documenting human-rights abuses mattered to the international community.
After the talk, Joseph Buras complained that documenting income would be unfair because the last two years have been cruel to shrimpers, with low prices and high costs.
Both express the view that documenting a crisis is less about capturing the violence than about seeing the life around it — "the whole situation that people are living in," as Mr. Hoagland puts it.
Brian Kammer, a defense lawyer who argued for allowing Mr. DeYoung's execution to be recorded, said that documenting the death was essential because of the controversy over the drugs used in lethal injections.
