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There is at least one serious effort underway to collect (or perhaps, catalogue) such a body of knowledge:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok

I think SWEBOK is interesting both as a demonstration of how far we have to go before we get anywhere near the standards of established engineering fields, and as a demonstration of how much we have already collectively figured out, even if most of us aren't familiar with more than a small fraction of what is out there.



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