Bruce D'Arcus

I have less issue with things like pubmed id numbers than I do with the UN stuff. Notwithstanding CSL, there seems something fundamentally wrong about calling an id for a...

1. Use more generic variables (e.g. sales-number or order-number instead of un-sales-number)? The UN document number has its own Wikipedia page though, so it must be important ;) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Document_Codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Document_Codes) ---...

A fourth alternative would be to add a second generic number field, and give us a specific item type for U.N. Sales Documents. At the moment, one U.N. institution is...

Ah. One point that might simplify the discussion is that the sticking point for cite formatting is the lack of a variable for "U.N. Sales Number". The "U.N. Document Number"...

Any further news on this item? --- ``` Original Comment By: Frank Bennett ```

There was finally some discussion of this on the BIBO list, but no obvious resolution ATM. --- ``` Original Comment By: Bruce D'Arcus ```

Slightly getting ahead of things, maybe, but this may be relevant to the discussion: [http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8874/getting-journal- abbreviations-from-a-repository/#Comment_49446](http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8874/getting-journal-) A mechanism that allows users to specify abbreviations could be used to furnish user-defined...

With discussion unfolding on bibo, everyone is happy to see the treatment of identifiers postponed to the next cycle. Shifting this ticket to 1.1. --- ``` Original Comment By: Frank...

Any news from Bibo? Would be nice to have a little flexibility over the handling identifiers, so that we can format citations to U.N. documents. It's a big organization, they...

I still remain uncomfortable with the options here. We need to make a final decision sometime before 1.1, but am still not sure what the best approach is. --- ```...