# Convention priorities Bill's workdir type signature reference size
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Chiappetti Pence combined.pdf
1Green Bank 2 easy nearly all 3.2 8 BINTABLE, usage convention no signature !! 1 Pence
2CONTINUE 1 immediately yes 3.4 10 header kwds kwd LONGSTRN='OGIP 1.0' (opt)
kwd CONTINUE present (de facto)
2 Pence
2bLong keyword names etc. 1 immediately yes not in "combined"
under discussion in TG
kwd LONGKYWD='1.0' ≤ 4
3Substring array for BINTABLE 6 easy NO 1.1 1 BINTABLE, TFORM, string kwd TFORMn like '%SSTR%' Cotton et al 1995 paper ≤ 2
4TLMIN TLMAX 5 easy nearly all 3.5 11 tables, header kwds TL|DMIN|MAXn present 2 Pence
5INHERIT 9 easy but nearly all 3.6 12 extensions, header kwd INHERIT present Zarate et al 1996 proceeding ? 1 Chiappetti
6CHECKSUM 3 easy nearly all 3.8 14 FITS files, header kwd DATASUM and/or CHECKSUM present see list ? 5
7Tiled image compression 7 by reference. nearly all 3.9 15 images in BINTABLE kwd ZIMAGE=T
and other Z kwds present
none ? 6+ Shaw
8Header space (*) 4 easy nearly all 3.1 4 usage convention (writers) no signature
blank kwd before END
1 Pence
9Tiled table compression (*) 8 by reference. nearly all 3.10 16 tables in BINTABLE kwd ZTABLE=T
and other Z kwds present
none ? 3 Shaw

10spatial region files 10 easy nearly all 2.1 2 kind of BINTABLE, WCS kwd HDUCLAS1='REGION' missing
11simple imaging polynomials possible but nearly all 2.2 3 WCS "projection" kwd CTYPEn like '%-SIP'
extra kwds
Shupe et al. 2005 proceeding 4
12TNX possible but nearly all 2.3 5 WCS "projection" kwd CTYPEn like '%-TNX'
extra kwds (WAT ...)
2
13TPV possible but nearly all 2.4 6 WCS "projection" extra PV kwds present 1
14ZPX possible but nearly all 2.5 7 WCS "projection" kwd CTYPEn like '%-ZPX'
extra kwds (WAT ...)
2

AESO HIERARCH NO but ... nearly all 3.3 9 header kwds kwd like HIERARCH % 1
BHierarchical grouping NO but ... nearly all 3.11 17 FITS file organization kwd EXTNAME='GROUPING'
and others
8
CFOREIGN NO specific/old ? nearly all 3.7 13 new extension kwd XTENSION='FOREIGN'
other extra kwds
3
DFITS-IDI NO specific nearly all
ESDFITS NO specific nearly all
FMBFITS NO specific nearly all
GEuro3D NO specific nearly all
HOIFITS NO specific nearly all
IPSRFITS NO specific nearly all

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