An essential part of the inquiry, he said, is taking thousands of pieces of data -- readings from individual power plants or transmission lines -- and compiling them into an authoritative timeline, but that would take weeks, not days, he said.
Mr. Kayes, an author with the current parliamentarian of a book on Senate procedure, spent hours combing through Congressional records dating back to the 1940's, examining precedents and compiling them in two black binders, each three inches thick.
The current practice in these projects involves creating separate building information models for the different disciplines and compiling them into one model to check for collisions or conflicts.
A century later Westlaw founder John West began collecting U.S. court decisions as they were issued and compiling them in volumes he called "reporters," so lawyers could keep track of the law as it evolved.
In the rough, and quite crowded world of NYC rental listings, TechStars-backed Nestio made a name for itself by taking all the various rental listing services on the web and compiling them in one place.
Several artists were remixing their tracks and compiling them to create new albums.
