Rules for Codetables

1. Which editors to use?

If possible do not use Excel to open/alter the csv files. We recommend using Notepad++ or you can change the tables directly in Github as well.

2. Notation:

The notation must follow the allowed characters for use in URLs specification

• http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

This means that a lot of special characters should not be used in the notation (no greek characters, no brackets, they should not start with _, etc.).

3. Table specific rules:

2-02 Programme/Network affiliation

Notations should be the following:

• Abbreviations use upper-case letters, also in the case where several abbreviations are concatenated.
• Names that are recognized as English words are spelled in lower-case.
• Upper/lower-case spelling that is in common use or a community term is preserved.
• Country names or other geographical names are spelled in title case (first letter capitalized, all others small-caps)

Examples:

GAW (not gaw), an accronym

GAWcontributing (not gawContributing), an accronym concatenated with a word

GAWABOS (not GAWabos), both are accronyms

GCWCryoNet, GCW is an accronym, CryoNet a community term

ARGORussia (not argoRussia)

ARGOMEXCOUS (not argoMexCoUS), concatenation of accronyms

TAOPirata (not taoPirata), accronym concatenated with geographical name