Models as Documents, Documents as Models

In software engineering, documentation and models are both broad concepts which attract varying approaches and attitudes. Moreover, as the title indicates, they overlap: in some circumstances, an artefact thought of as a model can serve to document a software project, while in others, an artefact thought of as a document can be manipulated by model-driven engineering tools just like any other kind of model. In this short paper we briefly explore these issues and provide pointers to some of the relevant literature.