The phrase "a collective knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the shared understanding or information held by a group of people.
Example: "The success of the project relied heavily on a collective knowledge of the team's diverse expertise."
Alternatives: "shared knowledge" or "common knowledge".
All employ clerks with a collective knowledge of their field that can be best described as encyclopedic, which comes in handy at this time of year, when many runners are deep into preparations for fall races.
To achieve this, it is also vital that a collective knowledge concerning the solutions to be selected and implemented is cultivated and at the basis of any consensus-building process [1, 9, 44].
One of the roles of researchers is to tap practitioners' knowledge, analyse it and integrate it into a collective knowledge base (a process similar to the design of expert systems).
Participating websites and apps then cater their advertisements based on a collective knowledge of the user's actions across all of their devices.
A collective knowledge that a student will not be penalized for their way of voicing frustrations with themselves or with the lesson changes the culture and environment of that classroom and can assign a level of credibility to a teacher he or she wouldn't have had otherwise.
Then, manual curation was performed based on a collective knowledge base and a combination of genomic, biochemical, and physiological information.
— Vindu Goel As Evernote's Cult Grows, the Business Market Beckons Businessweek.com | Evernote makes its move into companies as a repository of a business's collective knowledge.
The paper offers two contributions to explain knowledge creation in organizations: (1) we empirically validate the claim that individual knowledge creation is a prerequisite of collective knowledge creation; (2) we differentiate between support for collecting and connecting activities and explain the link between organizational and IT mechanisms as input and knowledge creation as output.
But "expert" computer systems and interactive terminals can make much of a bank's collective knowledge available to tellers.
Faith Davidson, an archivist for the Mohegan tribe who is serving on the museum committee, said Mr. Davis has brought a wealth of collective knowledge to the committee and is dedicated to preservation of the site.
In this manner, we are encouraging widespread participation from the ASD research community that will enhance AutDB as a tool for collective knowledge discovery.
