The encoding conventions used are intended to make the data more readable and accessible. These conventions must be respected when editing or adding data to maintain consistency in your data.

Some specific formats must be respected, for dates for example. All these conventions are detailed below with respect to :

the name of the share, the type, the country of the registered office, the country of activity, the registered office, the province, the date of issue and creation, the capital and the number of shares issued, the color and the decoration of the title.

For the name of the action, or more simply of the company, all the 'common' names, if present at the beginning, were put at the end. This is Société Anonyme (abbreviated S.A.), Company (abbreviated SOC.), Company (abbreviated CIE), Belgian or any other country name, National, General and all adjectives.

To properly mark this, a comma followed by a space is inserted before the return. For example :

the title "Société Anonyme Belge de Tramways" =  "TRAMWAYS, S.A. BELGE DE";

the title "Compagnie d'Anvers Société Anonyme" = "ANVERS, CIE. D'. - S.A."

All stock names are written in capital letters without an accent but with the 2 dots (¨) above the letters.

For titles written in several languages (Russian titles for example), the various translations have generally been encoded followed by the symbol '/'. However for some titles in unusual foreign languages (Hungarian, Finnish, ...) an English translation has sometimes been introduced.. 

For loans of cities and state, some special conventions are applications. 

Read the special conventions :

For state and city loans, special rules have been used to facilitate searches and readability of lists and listings.

For state bonds, we first enter the name of the country written in English and capital letters followed by the year of issue of the loan. Then comes in the language of the title the name of the country followed by a mention of the loan. Thus the loan opposite of Congo Belge was encoded as follows : 'BELGIAN CONGO 1906 COLONIE DU CONGO - DETTE PUBLIQUE 4%'

For loans of cities or towns, similarly, one begins by writing the name of the city followed by the date of issue of the loan and a mention of the type of loan. The mention city, commune, canton, ... in the language of the title is returned to the end preceded by a comma. If entries are made in 2 languages, the second language is included in the description. Thus the loan opposite of the Ville d'Anvers was encoded as follows : ANVERS 1936 EMPRUNT DE 75.000.000 F STAD ANTWERPEN, VILLE D'

You will still find many titles that do not respect this convention introduced quite recently.

Finally, it should be noted that for the same title, it has been encoded separately as "issued", that is to say circulated and as "unissued" if they both exist on the market. The title not issued (a specimen or a blanco therefore title without signature or number or a title missing a signature and / or number) has in the description of the type of title the mention 'spec.' added, for specimen.

However no distinction has been made between the different types of securities issued or non-issued. Thus actions canceled by perforation, roulette, bic or simply not canceled are considered identical. This may, however, have an influence on the price.

For the type of action, it is encoded as written on the coat and in the original language.

The country of the head office is the country of the head office or the country of the currency of issue of the title.

The country of activity is the country of the main activity or historically of origin of the company. When a company operates in more than one country, it is only possible to enter one.

The registered office has generally been encoded as written on the title and therefore in the language of the title.

The province is the province of the company's main business and is not the province of the company's head office.

The date formatsand the meaning of the date field 'written by hand' as well as the number of shares issued and the 'total issue' field. The creation date is the year of creation of the company.

The capital is the capital of the company, with a point to separate the 000 and without specification of the currency if it is the same as that of the type of the action.

The color is entered in English to avoid translation problems. Black is encoded too. So if the only color of the title is blue, it means that the whole coat is blue including the text.

The decoration of the title is a field that gives an idea whether the title is decorated or not, for example : DDD, DD, ED, ... Click here for a description of the different possibilities.

Finally, it must be said that these guidelines are not always respected. Thus encoded titles of a German auction house will be more often in German than in the original language.