Abbreviations

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.

Abbreviations for organisations, concepts and Consumerium articles

AWR : 142.177.X.X/Anti Wikipedia Rants - The troll known as 142.177.X.X has been on the warpath with Wikipedia due to him/her getting banned from there and numerous other places
BT: Bluetooth
ConsuML: Consumerium Markup Language
CSR: Corporate social responsibility
FLO: Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International
ebXML: Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
EPZ: Export processing zone
D-U-N-S: Dun&Bradstreet equity identification number, obtaining one is free. Querying them is prohibitively expensive/difficult
EAN: European Article Numbering
EAN.UCC: Joint Effort by EAN-international and UCC for unification of coding systems
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 ISO-6166)
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
PoS: Point-of-Sale
SF: Sourceforge
SSCC: Serial Shipping Container Code, administered by EAN.UCC
SRC ;) : Socially Responsible Consuming
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 ECRA-site)
UNECE : United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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 products, Product indentification system in the US & CA, administered by UCC
QoS: Quality of Service

Abbreviations used in article summaries

fmt - format
para - paragraph
rm - remove
rv - revert
tyop - typo

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