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Doctrina Christiana y catecismo para instrucción de los indios
The Doctrina Christiana y catecismo para instrucción de los indios is a trilingual catechism published in Lima in 1584, the first book printed in South America.
Doctrinaires
The French Doctrinaires were moderate royalist politicians under the Restoration and July Monarchy, led by Royer-Collard with Guizot, advocating full application of the 1814 Charter, censitary suffrage, and a middle way between absolutism and democracy.
Doctrinal analysis
Doctrinal analysis is a legal research method, known as black-letter law research, that examines statutes and case law to interpret, systematize, and evaluate legal doctrine.
Doctrinas de indios
Doctrinas de indios, Spanish for "doctrines of Indians," were rural parishes in Spanish colonial America for evangelizing indigenous communities; their priests were known as doctrineros.
Doctrine
Doctrine is a teaching that a community recognizes as authoritative: in religion, a body of affirmed truths about belief and practice, and by extension any settled body of principles in a field such as law.
Doctrine and Covenants
The Doctrine and Covenants is a collection of revelations first published in 1835, now issued in differing editions by the LDS Church and the Community of Christ.
Doctrine of lapse
Doctrine of lapse: East India Company annexation policy holding that a princely state whose ruler died without a recognized (natural) heir lapsed to the Company; applied by Lord Dalhousie 1848-1856 to Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and other states, adding about 100,000 square miles.
Docudrama
Docudrama: a dramatized depiction of real events combining documentary and drama; term coined in the 1960s, genre rooted in 1930s radio and film, common as TV movies and miniseries such as Roots, with First Amendment legal protection.
Documaci tumulus
The Documaci tumulus, also known as Movila Documaci, is a monumental early Hellenistic burial mound near Mangalia, Romania, built around the turn of the 4th to 3rd century BC.
Document
A document is a structured set of information recorded on a material medium in a stable form. Preservation requires managing format obsolescence and ensuring authenticity, reliability, and integrity.
Document (album)
Document (1987) is R.E.M.'s fifth album and last for I.R.S. Records, produced by Scott Litt in Nashville. Featuring "The One I Love" (No. 9 Billboard) and "It's the End of the World," it became the band's first million-selling, platinum album.
Document classification
Document classification, also known as document categorization or text categorization, is the task of automatically assigning documents such as web pages and newswire stories to predefined classes by subject, generally using machine learning algorithms.
Document clustering
Document clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that groups text documents by similarity, typically using TF-IDF vectors and k-means, to support search, topic extraction, and web mining.
Document layout analysis
Document layout analysis is a document image processing step that detects and classifies page regions such as text blocks, tables, and figures to support OCR.
Document management system
A document management system (DMS), also called an electronic document management system, is software used to receive, track, manage, and store documents, typically keeping version history of changes made by different users.
Document Object Model
The Document Object Model, or DOM, is a web standard representing HTML and XML documents as a tree of node objects that programs, usually JavaScript, access and manipulate.
Document type definition
A document type definition (DTD) is a set of markup declarations that defines a grammar for a class of XML or SGML documents, allowing validation.
Document-level relation extraction
Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is a natural language processing method that identifies relations between entity pairs across an entire document, used to build knowledge bases from large-scale documents.
Document-oriented database
A document-oriented database, also called a document store or document database, is a NoSQL database that stores data as self-contained JSON documents, allowing each document its own flexible structure.
Documentary analysis
Documentary analysis is a qualitative social-science method of systematically examining and interpreting existing documents, whose defining feature is that the data already exist before the research begins.
Documentary and verbatim theatre
Documentary and verbatim theater is performance built from trial transcripts, interviews, and documents, beginning with Erwin Piscator in 1925; verbatim theater reproduces real people's exact words.
Documentary film
Documentary film: nonfiction cinema dealing with actual people and events. Also called documentary, coined by John Grierson in 1926 as "creative treatment of actuality"; defined by factual materials, real subjects, and Nichols's six modes, distinct from fiction film.
Documentary Film Movement
The British Documentary Film Movement, led by John Grierson, coined 'documentary' as 'creative treatment of actuality' and produced over 300 films through the EMB, GPO, and Crown Film Units, 1926–1946.
Documentary hypothesis
The documentary hypothesis, also called the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, is the classical scholarly theory that the Pentateuch combines four source documents, J, E, D, and P.
Documentary Now!
Documentary Now! is an American mockumentary anthology comedy series on IFC, created by SNL alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas; each episode parodies a famous documentary, hosted by Helen Mirren, premiering August 20, 2015.
Documentary photography
Documentary photography is a genre of still photography recording people, places, and social conditions, exemplified by Jacob Riis's slum photos and Lewis Hine's child labor images.
Documentary television by country and era
Documentary television by country and era: the history of nonfiction TV programming across national traditions (British, American, Japanese, African, MENA) and four eras, from 1950s public service pioneers through 1970s formats to streaming-era financing and audiences.
Documentation
Software documentation is written or generated information describing a system for its users or maintainers, from tutorials and API references to design docs, runbooks, and architecture decision records.
Documents (magazine)
Documents was a Parisian illustrated avant-garde magazine, subtitled Doctrines, archéologie, beaux-arts, ethnographie, edited by Georges Bataille from 1929 and the principal organ of what scholars call ethnographic surrealism.
Documentum
Documentum is an enterprise content management software platform founded in 1990, acquired by EMC in 2003 for $1.7 billion and now sold by OpenText as Documentum Content Management.