1. A method of localizing an electronic registration system provided through a generic registration framework, the registration system having register, instrument and geographic entities within a database in a computer memory, the method comprising: by means of a capturing interface, defining register, instrument and geographic entities to be stored in the database; by means of a template interface, defining input parameters to accept input information through forms; by means of a workflow interface, selecting an order of registration operations to be performed on the input information; and by means of a rules interface, defining rules for processing the input information to be applied against an attribute of any one of the register, instrument and geographic entities.