OPCW institutional documents

These references on this page are for documents generated by the OPCW institutionally and are taken from the cataloguing system for the Sussex Harvard Information Bank (SHIB) and connected resources. For contributions to meetings, etc, see https://shib-temp.cbw-events.org.uk/opcw-input/ [NOTE: this linked page will not be public until coding is finished].

A brief note on cataloguing nomenclature is provided below the list of documents. A fuller guide to the structure is in preparation. Registered users will be able to search the catalogue in more detail once the database is further developed.

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PLEASE NOTE: the cataloguing system is under development and does not yet contain all relevant references from the holdings in the collections. There may also be a delay between documents being published and being included here.

The main pages for documents on the OPCW website are:

There are also pages for documents from:

Total Records Found: 2306, showing 25 per page
Title 2011-0406 {OPCW} [TS] S-919-2011 Conf on Int Coop and Chemical Safety and Security (2011-0912-13)
Sides 4
Title 2011-0406 {OPCW} [SAB] SAB-16-1 Report of the 16th session of the Scientific Advisory Board
Sides 142
Title 2011-0404 {OPCW} PR — New Deputy Director-General of the OPCW
Sides 1
Title 2011-0318 {OPCW} PR — DG visits UK … addresses RSC and Wilton Park
Sides 4
Title 2011-0317 {OPCW} DG address to Royal Society of Chemistry
Sides 8
Title 2011-0316 {OPCW} PR — DG statement to commemorate Halabja
Sides 2
Title 2011-0311 {OPCW} PR — DG meets PermRep Libya
Sides 2
Title 2011-0304 {OPCW} PR — Delegation Visits U.S. CWDFs and Holds High-Level Meetings in Washington DC
Sides 3
Title 2011-0304 {OPCW} Directory – section 3 Representatives to the Executive Council
Sides 55
Title 2011-0303 {OPCW} PR — H.E Mr Kakadjan Mammadov (Turkm nistan)
Sides 2
Title 2011-0303 {OPCW} PR — Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW Holds Second Meeting in The Hague
Sides 3
Title 2011-0225 {OPCW} PR — DG Visits Iran and Meets Foreign Minister
Sides 2
Title 2011-0210 {OPCW} PR — Meeting to Evaluate 28th OPCW Proficiency Test for Designated Laboratories
Sides 3
Title 2011-0131 {OPCW} PR — DG Receives Report on Article XI Workshop
Sides 3
Title 2011-0126 {OPCW} [TS] S-892-2011 Invitation to CW security and non-proliferation seminar (2011-0411-12)
Sides 6
Title 2011-0120 {OPCW} PR — Year of Transition for the OPCW
Sides 2
Title 2011-0120 {OPCW} [TS] S-890-2011
Sides 8
Title 2011-0114 {OPCW} PR — OPCW Director-General Visits India Meets External Affairs Minister and Other Senior Officials
Sides 3
Title 2011-0110 {OPCW} [TS] S-888-2011
Sides 2
Title 2010-1217 {OPCW} PR — DG Visits Japan and Meets Foreign Minister Maehara
Sides 3
Title 2010-1216 {OPCW} PR — Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW Holds First Meeting in The Hague
Sides 3
Title 2010-1210 {OPCW} PR — Regional Training for Asian National Authorities Held in Qatar
Sides 3
Title 2010-1203 {OPCW} [CSP] C-15-5 Report of CSP-15
Sides 11
Title 2010-1130 {OPCW} [CSP] C-15-4 Report on the OPCW in 2009
Sides 68
Title 2010-1129 {OPCW} [CSP] C-15-DG.15 DG opening statement
Sides 16

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, {OPCW}. 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 S/2425/2025 is rendered as S-2425-2025 in the catalogue, for example.
  • Document title = fairly self explanatory but may be abbreviated for space.

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