Colofon¶
Diátaxis is the work of Daniele Procida.
The principles described in this website have been developed over a number of years, and continue to be elaborated and explored.
Origins and development¶
The original context for this approach was software product documentation, which remains their principal application.
More recent work has seen them applied at scale in internal corporate documentation, in scientific research contexts, organisational management and education.
Divio and Diátaxis¶
The key concepts behind Diátaxis first crystallised while working at Divio, the cloud applications platform.
I presented these ideas at conferences in early 2017, and as they gained a fuller form, wrote them up as The documentation system for Divio.
The thinking and approaches I elaborated while working at Divio are at the core of the Diátaxis documentation philosophy. I remain grateful to Divio for the long and fruitful collaboration that provided me with the opportunity to develop and express these ideas. Divio should be acknowledged as having helped nurture them.
Since leaving Divio in 2021 I have continued to research and refine my approaches and methods in documentation, now published here.
For the sake of clarity, the material published at https://documentation.divio.com/ is Divio’s intellectual property and is rightfully there. Divio has behaved with appropriate courtesy and propriety throughout my time working at the company, and since then.
Do not approach or hassle Divio demanding explanations.
How to cite Diátaxis¶
To cite Diátaxis, please refer to this website, diataxis.fr.
The Git repository for the source material contains a citation file, CITATION.cff.
APA and BibTeX metadata are available from the Cite this repository option at https://github.com/evildmp/diataxis-documentation-framework.
Website¶
This website is built with Sphinx and hosted on Read the Docs, using a modified version of the Furo theme by Pradyun Gedam.