editing, compiling
纂 centers on gathering and arranging written material into a finished whole: editing and compiling texts.
纂 combines 竹 (bamboo) with 算, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of arranging or calculating. Historically, it referred to compiling bamboo slips into a text.
The bamboo top 竹 suggests writing materials, and the lower part looks like threads 糸 being woven together. Picture editing a text by tying bamboo strips into a compiled book.
For サン, imagine compiling a text under the sun: sun -> サン, and the light helps you edit the bamboo strips.
compilation (esp. dictionary, history, law code); editing
historiography
Historiographical Institute (University of Tokyo)
editorial office
editor; compiler
gathering and writing up material
miscellaneous collection
collection of similar objects; classification by similarity