The Slow Registry Workbook¶
The workbook holds every template the book introduces, in the order of the chapters. Each page is a fill-in template for your own registry: the chapters show each one at work on the Lantern Registry, and the workbook is where you do the same work for yours. The planning these pages describe is slow work, done by hand, and the online edition is a companion to that work rather than a substitute for it.
How to fill it in¶
Type into any table on a workbook page. Use Add a row below a table when you need more space, Download my entries to save a spreadsheet file (CSV) of the page, and Print or save as PDF to keep a copy. Entries are saved in the browser you typed them in. To work by hand, print any page; the tables print with ruled rows.
Before you enter anything¶
The workbook is for planning and practice. Use registry identifiers only, never names, dates of birth, contact details, or anything else that could identify a person. What you type stays in this browser: it is not sent anywhere and no one else can see it. It is also not backed up, and clearing the browser's data removes it, so download a copy of anything you want to keep.
Your registry¶
Enter your registry's name and condition once, and they fill in at the top of every workbook page.
Pages¶
| Page | Chapter | Use it to |
|---|---|---|
| Table 1 test | 1 | Name the users of the data and test the registry against a published Table 1 |
| First product and analysis plan | 2 | Name the first product and plan the data backward from it |
| Landscape worksheet | 3 | Find who is already in the space and decide whether to join, amplify, fill a gap, or build |
| Data source plan | 4 | Decide the source, schedule, and granularity of every field |
| Coordinator interaction log | 5 | Plan and record every contact with a participant |
| Data team roles | 6 | Name the core roles, the advisors on call, and who checks each denominator |
| Protocol synopsis | 7 | Settle the protocol and start the data dictionary before enrollment opens |
| Scenario walk-through | 7 | Walk each likely scenario to what it would require |
| Verification tier form | 8 | Define tiers, classify participants, report the counts together, and record the evidence behind every field |
| Curation and definitions log | 9 | Give every value a trail and every definition a version |
| Sample manifest and linkage log | 10 | Trace every sample and identifier back to one consented person |
| Weekly meeting agenda and minutes | 11 | Run the weekly meeting from the registry itself |
| Missing data plan | 12 | Agree reason codes, investigate gaps, and report them |
| Outreach calendar | 13 | Plan a year of contact that gives back as much as it asks |
| Community engagement record | 14 | Record interactions with the community and what they changed |
| Researcher map and data request log | 15 | Find researchers by mechanism and learn from every request |
| Briefing pack and meeting minutes | 16 | Prepare for a regulatory or industry conversation |
| AI use register | 17 and 18 | Decide what AI may do, who reviews it, and how its output is checked |