Documentation Freshness Measure
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A Documentation Freshness Measure is a temporal documentation quality measure that quantifies the timeliness of documentation updates relative to change events.
- AKA: Documentation Currency Metric, Document Age Indicator, Documentation Timeliness KPI.
- Context:
- It can typically calculate Documentation Age from documentation last update timestamps.
- It can typically compare Documentation Update Frequency against documentation freshness SLAs.
- It can typically identify Documentation Staleness Patterns through documentation change analysis.
- It can often trigger Documentation Refresh Alerts when documentation freshness thresholds are exceeded.
- It can often correlate Documentation Change Rates with documentation source system changes.
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- It can range from being a Simple Documentation Freshness Measure to being a Complex Documentation Freshness Measure, depending on its documentation freshness measure calculation method.
- It can range from being a Static Documentation Freshness Measure to being a Dynamic Documentation Freshness Measure, depending on its documentation freshness measure update frequency.
- It can range from being a Absolute Documentation Freshness Measure to being a Relative Documentation Freshness Measure, depending on its documentation freshness measure baseline.
- It can range from being a Binary Documentation Freshness Measure to being a Graduated Documentation Freshness Measure, depending on its documentation freshness measure scale.
- It can range from being a Document-Level Documentation Freshness Measure to being a Section-Level Documentation Freshness Measure, depending on its documentation freshness measure granularity.
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- It can support Documentation Maintenance Planning through documentation freshness forecasts.
- It can enable Documentation Risk Scoring via documentation freshness decay models.
- It can facilitate Documentation Prioritization using documentation freshness heat maps.
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- Examples:
- Time-Based Documentation Freshness Measures, such as:
- Event-Based Documentation Freshness Measures, such as:
- Compliance-Based Documentation Freshness Measures, such as:
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- Counter-Examples:
- Data Freshness Measure, which tracks database currency rather than documentation freshness measure.
- Cache Freshness Measure, which monitors cache validity rather than documentation freshness measure.
- Content Accuracy Measure, which assesses content correctness rather than documentation freshness measure.
- See: Documentation Quality Measure, Temporal Quality Measure, Documentation Lifecycle Management, Documentation Maintenance Plan, Change Management Metric, Update Frequency Analysis, Content Aging Model.