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    * [[CIUML]]: Consumables Information Unified Markup Language (not fixed, see: [[Polls]])
    * [[CIUML]]: Consumables Information Unified Markup Language (not fixed, see: [[Polls]])
    * [[FLO]]: [[Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International]]
    * [[FLO]]: [[Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International]]
    * [[EAN]]: European Article Numbering
    * [[EAN.UCC]]: Joint Effort by EAN-international and UCC for unification of coding systems
    * [[ECRA]]: [[Ethical Consumer Research Association]]
    * [[ECRA]]: [[Ethical Consumer Research Association]]
    * [[GCP]]: Global Company Prefix administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
    * [[GLN]]: Global Location Number administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
    * [[GSMP]]: Global Standards Management Process, initiative by [[EAN.UCC]]
    * [[GTIN]]: Shared namespace containing both [[EAN]] and [[UPC]] codes administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
    * [[ISIN]]: International Securities Identification Numbering System (see [[w:ISO-6166|ISO-6166]]  
    * [[ISIN]]: International Securities Identification Numbering System (see [[w:ISO-6166|ISO-6166]]  
    * [[PoS]]: [[Point-of-Sale]]  
    * [[PoS]]: [[Point-of-Sale]]  
    * [[SF]]: [[Sourceforge]]
    * [[SF]]: [[Sourceforge]]
    * [[SSCC]]: Serial Shipping Container Code, administered by [[EAN.UCC]]
    * [[SRC]] ;) : [[Socially Responsible Consuming]]
    * [[SRC]] ;) : [[Socially Responsible Consuming]]
    * [[SRI]]: [[Socially Responsible Investing]]
    * [[SRI]]: [[Socially Responsible Investing]]
    * [[UCC]]: Uniform Code Council, administers [[UPC-A]] and [[UPC-E]] code systems
    * [[UHC]]: [[Ultimate Holding Company]] (this term is used by the folks at [http://ethicalconsumer.org ECRA-site])
    * [[UHC]]: [[Ultimate Holding Company]] (this term is used by the folks at [http://ethicalconsumer.org ECRA-site])
    * [[UNECE]] : United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
    * [[UNECE]] : United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
    * [[UN/LOCODE]]: United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations
    * [[UN/LOCODE]]: United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations
    * [[UPC-A]]: Uniform Product Code A, Product indentification system in the US & CA, administered by [[UCC]]
    * [[UPC-E]]: Uniform Product Code E, for [[small product]]s, Product indentification system in the US & CA, administered by [[UCC]]
    * [[w:QoS|QoS]]: [[w:Quality of Service|Quality of Service]]
    * [[w:QoS|QoS]]: [[w:Quality of Service|Quality of Service]]
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    Revision as of 14:06, 16 June 2003

    Abbreviations used in Consumerium R&D Wiki

    Not including household things like HTML, XML, HTTP, or should it? Mainly just internal abbreviations for faster input.

    Oh yeah: Let's try and not forge our own jargon that makes the discussions prohibitively difficult to follow for non-consuholics.


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