Wolfe and his rapidly expanding team of researchers have created an extensive network of viral listening posts in the villages of Central Africa, and they have compiled a registry of viruses in many other places where pandemics often start: China, Malaysia, Madagascar, and Laos.
Probably, the most comprehensive effort, so far, has come from the Eurocare project, which has compiled cancer registry data across different European regions to evaluate patient survival in a pan-European context (Sant et al, 2012).
The city has begun compiling a registry of people with diabetes, to track their control of the disease, identify the strategies that work best and determine how individual doctors and clinics are faring in treating it.
"A lot of very significant architecture may disappear because nobody's paying attention to it," said Theordore H. M. Prudon, an architect who is president of the United States chapter of Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement, which is compiling a registry of important sites in New York City.
They started Tuesday to compile a registry, sending workers into the streets to collect information for a database, in which each child would be assigned a numbered file to help track their cases, said Victor Nyland of Unicef, a senior adviser for child protection and emergencies.
The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is compiling a Registry of Tools available to support countries in forest monitoring activities.
Data were provided for the NHS Blood and Transplant registry by staff from UK hospitals and compiled from the registry by D.M.S. None declared.
Public records compiled from cancer registry data give a snapshot of cancers diagnosed in given places at given times.
In 2001, the A. Philip Randolph Museum compiled a national registry of black railroad employees who worked from the late 1800s to 1969, a record that could be useful for historians and genealogists.
For example, a survey of people with severe diabetes, including blindness, found that they would accept the operation even if there were only a 42percentt chance they would survive, according to a registry compiled by Dr. Neumann's program at Tufts.
