Eingelesene

Eingelesene is a German term formed from the verb einlesen (to read in, to ingest) and the past participle eingelesen. It is typically used as an attributive adjective to describe items that have been read in or imported into a system, or as a nominalized form die Eingelesenen to refer to the read-in items as a group. The form is common in technical, administrative, and data-processing language, but it is not a standalone concept with a fixed definition beyond its linguistic function.

In computing and data processing, eingelesene Daten (read-in data) or eingelesene Dateien (read-in files) denote data that has been read from an external source and loaded into a target system, such as a database, data warehouse, or processing pipeline. The emphasis is on the ingestion step, separating read-in data from subsequently processed, transformed, or stored data. The term can also appear in contexts describing processes or workflows that include data ingestion as an initial stage.

In general usage, eingelesene can modify nouns such as Informationen, Listen, or Daten, for example: Die eingelesenen Daten müssen validiert werden. Die eingelesene Liste enthält alle relevanten Einträge. When used as a nominalized form, one might encounter die Eingelesenen to refer to the collection of items that have been read in, treated as a unit in a discussion or document.

Etymologically, eingelesen derives from einlesen, with the resulting forms serving typical German adjectival and nominalized functions.