Today, the White House released a new report cataloguing some of these early signs of success.
But Dr Mahathir's complaint about it does not centre on its cataloguing of his authoritarian streak.
In 1851, American librarian Melvil Dewey, who devised the system of classification for library cataloguing, was born.
Mr Merrington will spend next year cataloguing the collection and creating a photographic record of each item.
Instead, the collectors prefer to put their own money into gathering and cataloguing thousands of works of art.
For his part, Dr von Ahn talks of better browsing for the visually impaired, and better cataloguing of data.
The project will ensure that the archive cataloguing and conservation methods are up to date, and that all material has been correctly recorded.
The letters have been in private hands since they were given to a family friend who worked in Rivera's home cataloguing his drawings.
Robert Oppenheimer fellowship at Los Alamos to tackle the Baltermants archive, a cataloguing job so big it might better have gone to a university or museum.
By cataloguing each and every asset councils can help government find innovative new ways to utilise them, improve local services, keep council running costs down and save taxpayers' money.
Although the science has improved over the years, the continued emphasis on what to save, rather than how to do it, seems like cataloguing deck chairs on the Titanic.
"The cataloguing that I mentioned, frankly, that's one person in our administrative offices who is really just keeping track in his head about things that may have taken place, " Fleischer told reporters Friday.
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The group now plans to keep their website up and running, cataloguing the steps they have gone through in the past two years to provide guidance to anyone else in a similar situation.
When professionals dominate all complex subjects, from the forecasting of markets to the cataloguing of library books, perhaps it is too much to hope that public policy can ever be the province of the amateur.
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In defense of its latest venture, Google, led by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , has maintained its intentions are to "make millions of books easier for people to find and buy, " by cataloguing them online.
Others attacked him for indecency or for his cataloguing of the limitless particulars of modern life its diversity of people, its trolley cars, its technology: literature, after all, was about higher things and ought to be properly expressed.
He has been cataloguing possible candidates from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a collaboration between America, Britain and the Netherlands that conducted the first space-based survey of the entire sky at infra-red wavelengths and located hundreds of thousands of sources.
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Organized 11 years after MINEPS II, MINEPS III (Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1999) showed itself to be vital for gauging the progress made, cataloguing the difficulties and constraints encountered and setting new aims, especially for the first decade of the third millennium.
After reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and seeing a photograph of an albatross with its belly full of plastic several years ago, Terry started cataloguing the plastic waste she creates each year, concentrating on disposable plastics (not her laptop or television, but things like food packaging, shipping waste, straws, and so forth).
Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.
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