A number of attributes in the PDS common classes have standard value lists. You can look the standard values up in either the Data Dictionary - Abridged document or the Schematron file that comes with the PDS4 master schema. Both can be rather tedious to sort through.
Following are the most commonly used standard value lists for quick reference. They're sorted first by the attribute name, then by the context in which it appears. Many of these appear in several different classes, and the standard value lists depend on which class the attribute appears in, and sometimes - as in the case of <reference_type> - it depends on the containing class one or two levels above that. We'll try to keep these updated as changes and additions propagate to the master schema.
Note that spelling counts - including capitalization and use of underscores vs. blanks. Type these values exactly as they're shown below or you will get a validation error from the Schematron file.
As of 2017-01-11, these have been updated to reflect the Release 1.7.0.0 schemas.
<bundle_type>
In <Bundle>
<collection_type>
In <Collection>
- Browse
- Calibration
- Context
- Data
- Document
- Geometry
- Miscellaneous
- SPICE Kernel
- XML Schema
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<data_type>
Follow the links below for a thumbnail description of each data type.
In character table fields (fixed width or delimited)
In binary table fields
In array elements
In bit fields
<discipline_name>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>/<Science_Facets>
- Atmospheres
- Fields
- Flux Measurements
- Geosciences
- Imaging
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- Particles
- Radio Science
- Ring-Moon Systems
- Small Bodies
- Spectroscopy
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<document_standard_id>
In <Document_File>
- 7-Bit ASCII Text
- Encapsulated Postscript
- GIF
- HTML
- JPEG
- LaTEX
- MPEG-4
- Microsoft Excel
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- Microsoft Word
- PDF
- PDF/A
- PNG
- Postscript
- Rich Text
- TIFF
- UTF-8 Text
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<domain>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>/<Science_Facets>
- Atmosphere
- Dynamics
- Heliosheath
- Heliosphere
- Interior
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- Interstellar
- Ionosphere
- Magnetosphere
- Rings
- Surface
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<facetN>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>/<Science_Facets>
The allowed values for <facet1> and <facet2> depend on the value of <discipline_name>, but are independent of each other. Not all disciplines have a facet2 value list, and there is no requirement to use these values if they are not applicable to your data. This table shows the discipline_name/facet correspondences:
discipline_name |
facet1 |
facet2
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Atmospheres
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not used
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Fields
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Flux Measurements
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not used
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Imaging
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- Grayscale
- Color
- Movie
- Color Movie
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not used
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Particles
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- Cosmic Ray
- Solar Energetic
- Energetic
- Plasma
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Ring-Moon Systems
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- Satellite Astrometry
- Ring Compositional Map
- Ring Occultation Profile
- Ring Thermal Map
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not used
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Small Bodies
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- Dynamical Properties
- Lightcurve
- Meteoritics
- Physical Properties
- Production Rates
- Shape Model
- Taxonomy
- Dust Study
- Historical Reference
- Gas Study
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not used
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Spectroscopy
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- 2D
- Linear
- Spectral Cube
- Spectral Image
- Tabulated
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not used
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If you have suggestions for additional facet values, please contact your PDS node representative.
<field_delimiter>
- Comma
- Horizontal Tab
- Semicolon
- Vertical Bar
<geom:kernel_provenance>
This attribute occurs in the Geometry discipline dictionary and namespace.
- Mixed
- Predicted
- Provenance Not Applicable
- Reconstructed
<local_reference_type>
This attribute, defined in the core PDS4 namespace, will be assigned enumerated value lists in discipline and mission dictionaries. The contexts listed below refer to these namespaces by their PDS-assigned prefixes:
In <disp:Display_Settings>
- display_settings_to_array
In <geom:Coordinate_Space_Reference>
- to_reference_coordinate_space
In <geom:Expanded_Geometry>
In <geom:Image_Display_Geometry>
In <part:Particle_Observation>
- particle_observation_to_aligned_values
- particle_observation_to_axis_values
- particle_observation_to_face_values
- particle_observation_to_observation_values
In <spec:Axis_Bin_Set>
- spectral_characteristics_to_array_axis
In <spec:Axis_Uniformly_Sampled>
- spectral_characteristics_to_array_axis
In <spec:Spectral_Characteristics>
- spectral_characteristics_to_array_object
In <spec:Spectral_Lookup>
- spectral_characteristics_to_bin_center_values
- spectral_characteristics_to_bin_width_values
In <wave:Wave_Observation>
- wave_observation_to_axis_values
- wave_observation_to_face_values
- wave_observation_to_observation_values
<member_status>
In <Bundle_Member_Entry>
nilReason
This is actually an XML attribute that appears inside an element tag when that element is being explicitly defined as 'nil'. Very few PDS label attributes can be declared to be 'nil', but here's an example of what it might look like if you are, for example, labelling a product that doesn't really have a data collection time span:
<start_date_time xsi:nil="true" nilReason="inapplicable"/>
The allowed values for nilReason are:
- inapplicable
- anticipated
- missing
- unknown
<parsing_standard_id>
- 7-Bit ASCII Text
- CDF 3.4 ISTP/IACG
- FITS 3.0
- ISIS2
- ISIS2 History Label
- ISIS3
- PDS DSV 1
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- PDS ODL 2
- PDS3
- Pre-PDS3
- UTF-8 Text
- VICAR1
- VICAR2
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In <Inventory>
In <SPICE_Kernel>
In <Stream_Text>
- 7-Bit ASCII Text
- PDS3
- UTF-8 Text
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In <Table_Delimited>
In <XML_Schema>
- Schematron ISO/IEC 19757-3:2006
- XML Schema Version 1.1
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<processing_level>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>
- Calibrated
- Derived
- Partially Processed [data that is reduced but not Calibrated]
- Raw
- Telemetry
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<purpose>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>
- Calibration
- Checkout
- Engineering
- Navigation
- Observation Geometry
- Science
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<record_delimiter>
Everywhere in PDS4 where this attribute occurs it is required to have the same value:
- Carriage-Return Line-Feed
<reference_type>
In <Bundle_Member_Entry>
- bundle_has_browse_collection
- bundle_has_calibration_collection
- bundle_has_context_collection
- bundle_has_data_collection
- bundle_has_document_collection
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- bundle_has_geometry_collection
- bundle_has_member_collection
- bundle_has_schema_collection
- bundle_has_spice_kernel_collection
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In <Inventory>
- inventory_has_member_product
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In <Investigation_Area>/<Internal_Reference>
- bundle_to_investigation in Product_Bundle
- collection_to_investigation in Product_Collection
- document_to_investigation in Product_Document
- data_to_investigation in Product_Observational
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In <Observing_System_Component>/<Internal_Reference>
- is_airborne
- is_facility
- is_instrument
- is_instrument_host
- is_other
- is_telescope
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Use is_facility for ground-based observatories and labs. Use is_airborne for balloons, aircraft, sounding rockets, etc., that serve as observing platforms. Use is_other for anything that doesn't clearly fit in one of the other categories.
In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Bundles
- bundle_to_associate
- bundle_to_document
- bundle_to_errata
- bundle_to_instrument
- bundle_to_instrument_host
- bundle_to_investigation
- bundle_to_resource
- bundle_to_target
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In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Collections
- collection_to_associate
- collection_to_ancillary
- collection_to_bundle
- collection_to_browse
- collection_to_calibration
- collection_to_context
- collection_curated_by_node
- collection_to_data
- collection_to_document
- collection_to_errata
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- collection_to_geometry
- collection_to_instrument
- collection_to_instrument_host
- collection_to_investigation
- collection_to_personnel
- collection_to_resource
- collection_to_schema
- collection_to_spice_kernel
- collection_to_target
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In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Ancillary Products
In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Browse Products
- browse_to_data
- browse_to_thumbnail
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In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Context Products
- context_to_associate
- instrument_to_document
- instrument_to_instrument_host
- instrument_host_to_document
- instrument_host_to_instrument
- instrument_host_to_investigation
- instrument_host_to_target
- investigation_to_document
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- investigation_to_instrument
- investigation_to_instrument_host
- investigation_to_target
- node_to_personnel
- node_to_agency
- node_to_manager
- node_to_operator
- node_to_data_archivist
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- resource_to_instrument
- resource_to_instrument_host
- resource_to_investigation
- resource_to_target
- target_to_document
- target_to_instrument
- target_to_instrument_host
- target_to_investigation
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In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Document Products
- document_to_associate
- document_to_investigation
- document_to_instrument_host
- document_to_instrument
- document_to_target
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In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Observational Products
- data_to_ancillary_data
- data_to_associate
- data_to_browse
- data_to_calibrated_product
- data_to_calibration_document
- data_to_calibration_product
- data_curated_by_node
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- data_to_derived_product
- data_to_document
- data_to_geometry
- data_to_raw_product
- data_to_resource
- data_to_spice_kernel
- data_to_thumbnail
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In <Reference_List>/<Source_Product_External>
- data_to_calibrated_source_product
- data_to_derived_source_product
- data_to_partially_processed_source_product
- data_to_raw_source_product
- data_to_telemetry_source_product
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In <Reference_List>/<Source_Product_Internal>
- data_to_calibrated_source_product
- data_to_derived_source_product
- data_to_partially_processed_source_product
- data_to_raw_source_product
- data_to_telemetry_source_product
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In <Target_Identification>/<Internal_Reference>
- bundle_to_target in Product_Bundle
- collection_to_target in Product_Collection
- data_to_target in Product_Observational
- document_to_target in Product_Document
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<type>
In <Investigation_Area>
- Individual Investigation
- Mission
- Observing Campaign
- Other Investigation
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In <Observation_Area> (or <Context_Area>)/<Target_Identification>
- Asteroid
- Calibration (see note below)
- Calibration Field
- Calibrator
- Comet
- Dust
- Dwarf Planet
- Equipment
- Exoplanet System
- Galaxy
- Globular Cluster
- Lunar Sample
- Meteorite
- Meteroid
- Meteroid Stream
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- Nebula
- Open Cluster
- Planet
- Planetary Nebula
- Planetary System
- Plasma Cloud
- Plasma Stream
- Ring
- Satellite
- Star
- Star Cluster
- Sun
- Synthetic Sample
- Terrestrial Sample
- Trans-Neptunian Object
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Note: Do not use Calibration as a target <type> value in data labels submitted to the SBN. "Calibration" is a reason to take an observation, and is noted in the <Primary_Result_Summary>.
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Some targets, particularly small body targets, correspond to more than one of the listed type values. The <type>
attribute may be repeated in these cases. If you have observed something that does not have a reasonable, corresponding type value in the above list, please contact your PDS node consultant as soon as possible with details.
In <Observing_System_Component>
- Airborne
- Aircraft
- Artificial Illumination
- Balloon
- Facility
- Instrument
- Laboratory
- Literature Search
- Naked Eye
- Observatory
- Spacecraft
- Suborbital Rocket
- Telescope
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In <Product_Context>/<Facility>
In <Product_Context>/<Instrument>
- Accelerometer
- Alpha Particle Detector
- Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer
- Altimeter
- Anemometer
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Atomic Force Microscope
- Barometer
- Biology Experiments
- Bolometer
- Camera
- Cosmic Ray Detector
- Drilling Tool
- Dust
- Dust Detector
- Electrical Probe
- Energetic Particle Detector
- Gamma Ray Detector
- Gas Analyzer
- Grinding Tool
- Hygrometer
- Imager
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- Imaging Spectrometer
- Inertial Measurement Unit
- Infrared Spectrometer
- Interferometer
- Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometer
- Magnetometer
- Mass Spectrometer
- Microscope
- Microwave Spectrometer
- Moessbauer Spectrometer
- Naked Eye
- Neutral Particle Detector
- Neutron Detector
- Particle Detector
- Photometer
- Plasma Analyzer
- Plasma Detector
- Plasma Wave Spectrometer
- Polarimeter
- Radar
- Radio Science
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- Radio Spectrometer
- Radio Telescope
- Radio-Radar
- Radiometer
- Reflectometer
- Regolith Properties
- Robotic Arm
- Seismometer
- Small Bodies Sciences
- Spectrograph
- Spectrograph Imager
- Spectrometer
- Thermal Imager
- Thermal Probe
- Thermometer
- Ultraviolet Spectrometer
- Weather Station
- Wet Chemistry Laboratory
- X-ray Detector
- X-ray Diffraction Spectrometer
- X-ray Flourescence Spectrometer
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In <Product_Context>/<Instrument_Host>
- Earth-based
- Lander
- Rover
- Spacecraft
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In <Product_Context>/<Investigation>
- Individual Investigation
- Mission
- Observing Campaign
- Other Investigation
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In <Product_Context>/<Target>
- Asteroid
- Calibration
- Calibration Field
- Calibrator
- Comet
- Dust
- Dwarf Planet
- Equipment
- Exoplanet System
- Galaxy
- Globular Cluster
- Lunar Sample
- Meteorite
- Meteroid
- Meteroid Stream
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- Nebula
- Open Cluster
- Planet
- Planetary Nebula
- Planetary System
- Plasma Cloud
- Plasma Stream
- Ring
- Satellite
- Star
- Star Cluster
- Sun
- Synthetic Sample
- Terrestrial Sample
- Trans-Neptunian Object
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<wavelength_range>
In <Primary_Result_Summary>/<Science_Facets>
- Far Infrared
- Gamma Ray
- Infrared
- Microwave
- Millimeter
- Near Infrared
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- Radio
- Submillimeter
- Ultraviolet
- Visible
- X-ray
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