In current work on LIM, the following Value Types for attributes are being recommended: Boolean, Controlled Vocabulary, Date, DateTime, MultilingualText (derived from Text), Number, String, Text.

It would be an advantage for GSIM implementers, if these recommendations were also considered for GSIM.

Currently, GSIM has the following:

• Text/text/Textual (recommend change to Text)
• Boolean
• Binary (recommend change to Boolean)
• Date
• Numeric/number (recommend change to Number)
• String
• Extensible redefined list (recommend change to Controlled Vocabulary)
• Met/Unmet (recommend change to Controlled Vocabulary)
• Identifier/ID - This is not a Value Type. It is an attribute.
• Version Designator (recommend change to String)
• Entity Designator (recommend change to Text)
• DateRange (only used for Population, recommend change to Date)