Oct 25, 2020 19:06
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French term

savoir sédimenté / échanges sédimentés

French to English Art/Literary Military / Defense Archive research
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.

Discussion

Thomas Miles Oct 25, 2020:
Phil I did not see your answer. Totally agree. There are of course other options a good thesauraus will suggest!
Barbara Cochran, MFA Oct 25, 2020:
Compendium Of Knowledge,,, ,,,is what might work in the first case, "a collection of exchanges", in the second. Even though in either instance, it's not very literal.
philgoddard Oct 25, 2020:
You could say "accumulated" for the first one.

Proposed translations

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accumulated / recorded

Some ideas to get you going. You might have to end up using different words for each case.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
2 hrs
agree chris collister : Hard to find a suitably fitting geological term, but "accumulated wisdom" would cover it.
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I think the stepping stone is something like 'thésauriser'.
agree Yvonne Gallagher
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Accumulated is the word! Thanks Thomas."
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retained collectives of knowledge and information

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.
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amassed knowledge

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...
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stratification of knowledge

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
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built up /or/ laid down

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.
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