Data Types

The Court Data Standard requires values to be of a specific predefined type for each property. This facilitates standardization, consistency, and ease of automated collection of court data. An explanation of data types follows below.

Text

Text (also known as a string) is a sequence of characters. Be sure to read the description for each text property, as some properties only allow values that are formatted in a specific manner. Text values must be free of leading or trailing whitespace.

URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies the location of resources on the web, most commonly websites. https://www.google.com is an example of a URL.

DateTime

A DateTime is an expression of a date and/or time in an ISO-8601 compliant format. For the purposes of this standard, only the time portion of a DateTime value is required. Time must be expressed in four-digit 24-hour format with hours and minutes separated by a colon (:). The time zone must also be indicated by appending a plus or minus symbol (+, -) and the GMT offset immediately after the minutes (e.g., 9:00 AM PST would be expressed as 09:00-08:00).