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savoir sédimenté / échanges sédimentés

English translation: accumulated / recorded

19:06 Oct 25, 2020
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Military / Defense / Archive research
French term or phrase: savoir sédimenté / échanges sédimentés
This is a text about how digitisation has made archives and the whole process of researching them more accessible to the layman.

In this paragraph, there are two instances of this use of "sédimenté" - "tout le savoir sédimenté sur le sujet" and "des échanges sédimentés dans des textes".

"À portée du clavier et de la souris, en quelques clics, l’amateur trouve les ressources pour mener l’enquête, soit en interrogeant les textes via un moteur de recherche, qui donne l’accès à tout le savoir sédimenté sur le sujet, soit en interrogeant d’autres amateurs dans des espaces collectifs en ligne, comme un forum, une page Facebook, ou même en suivant des comptes sur Twitter… D’ailleurs, la frontière entre la consultation des documents et des humains s’estompe, puisque le moteur peut donner accès à des échanges sédimentés dans des textes."

All I can come up with is "consolidated", but I feel that may not be quite right. Suggestions welcome! Thanks.
Dominic Gourd
Local time: 12:07
English translation:accumulated / recorded
Explanation:
Some ideas to get you going. You might have to end up using different words for each case.
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Thomas Miles
France
Local time: 17:07
Grading comment
Accumulated is the word! Thanks Thomas.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3accumulated / recorded
Thomas Miles
5built up /or/ laid down
Matt Darley
3retained collectives of knowledge and information
Lisa Rosengard
3amassed knowledge
Wendy Streitparth
3stratification of knowledge
SafeTex


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accumulated / recorded


Explanation:
Some ideas to get you going. You might have to end up using different words for each case.

Thomas Miles
France
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Accumulated is the word! Thanks Thomas.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
2 hrs
agree  chris collister: Hard to find a suitably fitting geological term, but "accumulated wisdom" would cover it.
14 hrs
  -> I think the stepping stone is something like 'thésauriser'.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
16 hrs
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retained collectives of knowledge and information


Explanation:
The description is of search engines and the wonders of the catalogues of available information, inquiries, surveys. The search engine, with all its resources and benefits, might eclipse human interaction and research.

Lisa Rosengard
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:07
Native speaker of: English
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amassed knowledge


Explanation:
They say knowledge is power. And for most of us, humankinds' amassed knowledge is accessible at the touch of a button.

https://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-features...

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 39
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stratification of knowledge


Explanation:
Hello

I'd rather have said "stratified knowledge" but that term only seems to appear in the longer string "stratified knowledge bases" while "stratification of knowledge" does get suitable hits
So this is therefore the closest I can get to the French while keeping what seems to be the idea behind it


    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042085991026003003
    https://books.google.fr/books?id=qJbpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=%22knowledge+stratification%22&source=bl&ots=HHxqIhfPRn&sig=ACfU3U3SFDb9
SafeTex
France
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
built up /or/ laid down


Explanation:
I think I'd plump for accumulated, but a couple of other suggestions if you want something that gives more of the 'sense' of sedimenté:

"all the knowledge built up over time on this subject"

"all the knowledge laid down over time on this subject"

Better suited to the first example, and a wordy solution, so probably best not used twice so close together.

Matt Darley
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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