Standard Values Quick Reference

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.

<bundle_type>

In <Bundle>

Archive Supplemental

Note: Never use Supplemental unless specifically directed to do so by your PDS consultant.

<collection_type>

In <Collection>

Browse Calibration Context Data Document Geometry Miscellaneous SPICE Schema

<data_regime>

In <Primary_Result_Summary>

Dust Electric_Field Electrons Far_Infrared Gamma_Ray Infrared

Ions Magnetic_Field Microwave Millimeter Near_Infrared Particles

Radio Sub-Millimeter Ultraviolet Visible X-Ray

<data_type>

In character table fields (fixed width or delimited)

ASCII_AnyURI ASCII_Boolean ASCII_DOI ASCII_Date ASCII_Date_DOY ASCII_Date_Time ASCII_Date_Time_DOY

ASCII_Date_Time_UTC ASCII_Date_Time_YMD ASCII_Date_YMD ASCII_Directory_Path_Name ASCII_File_Name ASCII_File_Specification_Name ASCII_Integer

ASCII_LID ASCII_LIDVID ASCII_LIDVID_LID ASCII_MD5_Checksum ASCII_NonNegative_Integer ASCII_Numeric_Base16 ASCII_Numeric_Base2

ASCII_Numeric_Base8 ASCII_Real ASCII_String ASCII_Time ASCII_VID UTF8_String

In binary table fields

IEEE754LSBDouble IEEE754LSBSingle IEEE754MSBDouble IEEE754MSBSingle ComplexLSB16 ComplexLSB8 ComplexMSB16 ComplexMSB8

SignedBitString SignedByte SignedLSB2 SignedLSB4 SignedLSB8 SignedMSB2 SignedMSB4 SignedMSB8 UnsignedBitString UnsignedByte UnsignedLSB2 UnsignedLSB4 UnsignedLSB8 UnsignedMSB2 UnsignedMSB4 UnsignedMSB8

ASCII_AnyURI ASCII_Boolean ASCII_DOI ASCII_Date ASCII_Date_DOY ASCII_Date_Time ASCII_Date_Time_DOY ASCII_Date_Time_UTC ASCII_Date_Time_YMD ASCII_Date_YMD ASCII_Directory_Path_Name ASCII_File_Name ASCII_File_Specification_Name ASCII_Integer

ASCII_LID ASCII_LIDVID ASCII_LIDVID_LID ASCII_MD5_Checksum ASCII_NonNegative_Integer ASCII_Numeric_Base16 ASCII_Numeric_Base2 ASCII_Numeric_Base8 ASCII_Real ASCII_String ASCII_Time ASCII_VID UTF8_String

In array elements

IEEE754LSBDouble IEEE754LSBSingle IEEE754MSBDouble IEEE754MSBSingle ComplexLSB16 ComplexLSB8 ComplexMSB16 ComplexMSB8

SignedBitString SignedByte SignedLSB2 SignedLSB4 SignedLSB8 SignedMSB2 SignedMSB4 SignedMSB8

UnsignedBitString UnsignedByte UnsignedLSB2 UnsignedLSB4 UnsignedLSB8 UnsignedMSB2 UnsignedMSB4 UnsignedMSB8

<external_standard_id>

In <Document_File>

ASCII Encapsulated_Postscript GIF HTML JPEG LaTEX Microsoft_Word

PDF PDF-A PNG Postscript Rich_Text TIFF UTF-8

<member_status>

In <Bundle_Member_Entry>

Primary Secondary

<observing_system_component_type>

In <Observing_System_Component>

Analyst ← Never use this. Credit authors and editors in the Citation class. Artificial_Illumination Ground-based_Laboratory Ground-based_Observatory Ground-based_Telescope Instrument Literature_Search PDS_Archived_Data ← Never use this. It's logically ridiculous. Spacecraft

<processing_level_id>

In <Primary_Result_Summary>

Calibrated Derived Raw Reduced

<purpose>

In <Primary_Result_Summary>

Calibration Checkout Engineering Navigation Science

<reference_type>

In <Observing_System_Component>/<Internal_Reference>

is_instrument is_instrument_host

Note: Clearly these values are not sufficient for groundbased data, or indeed anything other than a spacecraft-mounted instrument. Following are some additional fake values we'll use until the above problem is fixed. These values will generate validation errors:

is_observatory is_telescope

Let me know if you run across anything else that doesn't fit.

In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Bundles

bundle_to_errata bundle_to_document

In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Collections

collection_to_resource collection_to_associate collection_to_calibration collection_to_geometry collection_to_spice_kernel collection_curated_by_node collection_to_document

collection_to_browse collection_to_context collection_to_data collection_to_document collection_to_schema collection_to_errata collection_to_bundle

In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Document Products

document_to_associate document_to_investigation document_to_instrument_host document_to_instrument document_to_target

In <Reference_List>/<Internal_Reference> in Observational Products

data_to_resource data_to_calibration_document data_to_calibration_product data_to_raw_product data_to_calibrated_product data_to_geometry data_to_spice_kernel data_to_thumbnail data_to_document data_to_browse data_curated_by_node

<type>

In <Primary_Result_Summary>

Altimetry Astrometry Count E/B-Field_Vectors Gravity_Model

Image Magnetometry Map Null_Result Occultation

Photometry Polarimetry Radiometry Shape_Model Spectrum

In <Target_Identification>

Asteroid Comet Dust Dwarf_Planet Galaxy Globular_Cluster Meteorite

Meteoroid Meteoroid_Stream Nebula Open_Cluster Planet Planetary_Nebula Planetary_System Plasma_Cloud

Ring Satellite Star Star_Cluster Sun Terrestrial_Sample Trans-Neptunian_Object