Biological Weapons Convention Working Group plus associated Meetings of States Parties

The cataloguing nomenclature is based around generating a title field that embodies enough information for a user to identify any document through a string of characters. The title field, at the basic level, contains three key elements — a date code, a source code and the document title.

• Date code = the form 2003-0901 which represents 1 September 2003, for example.
• Source code = a code or codes in brackets, e.g, {BWC}. Two letter codes for internet domains are used to indicate countries, so that a document or statement submitted by Singapore to the BWC would be coded {SG} [BWC], for example. When an entity has a document reference system, this will be reflected in the title field between the source code and the document title. As many IT systems cannot handle “/” characters in many contexts, these are replaced by “-” in the title field such that document BWC/WG/5/WP.4 is rendered as BWC-WG-5-WP.4 in the catalogue.
• Document title = fairly self explanatory but may be abbreviated for space.

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