diff --git a/src/consts.rs b/src/consts.rs
index 008e435..25fba9b 100644
--- a/src/consts.rs
+++ b/src/consts.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use time::{format_description::FormatItem, macros::format_description};
 
-/// The value of the "User-Agent" header sent in requests to the Dandi Archive
-/// and S3
+/// The "User-Agent" value sent in outgoing HTTP requests
 pub(crate) static USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(
     env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"),
     "/",
@@ -11,29 +10,42 @@ pub(crate) static USER_AGENT: &str = concat!(
     ")",
 );
 
-/// The value of the "Server" header returned in all responses from dandidav
+/// The "Server" value returned in all responses from dandidav
 pub(crate) static SERVER_VALUE: &str =
     concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION"));
 
+/// The default value of the `--api-url` command-line option
 pub(crate) static DEFAULT_API_URL: &str = "https://api.dandiarchive.org/api";
 
-// Case sensitive:
+/// File extensions (case sensitive) for Zarrs, including the leading periods
 pub(crate) static ZARR_EXTENSIONS: [&str; 2] = [".zarr", ".ngff"];
 
+/// The maximum number of S3 clients cached at once by `DandiClient`
 pub(crate) const S3CLIENT_CACHE_SIZE: u64 = 8;
 
+/// The "Content-Type" value for HTML responses to `GET` requests for
+/// collections
 pub(crate) static HTML_CONTENT_TYPE: &str = "text/html; charset=utf-8";
 
+/// The "Content-Type" value for the stylesheet
 pub(crate) static CSS_CONTENT_TYPE: &str = "text/css; charset=utf-8";
 
+/// The "Content-Type" value (reported in both `GET` and `PROPFIND` responses)
+/// for virtual `dandiset.yaml` files
 pub(crate) static YAML_CONTENT_TYPE: &str = "text/yaml; charset=utf-8";
 
+/// The "Content-Type" value given in `PROPFIND` responses for blob assets with
+/// no `encodingFormat` set and also for Zarr entries
 pub(crate) static DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE: &str = "application/octet-stream";
 
+/// The "Content-Type" value for `PROPFIND` XML responses
 pub(crate) static DAV_XML_CONTENT_TYPE: &str = "text/xml; charset=utf-8";
 
+/// The XML namespace for standard WebDAV elements
 pub(crate) static DAV_XMLNS: &str = "DAV:";
 
+/// The display format for timestamps shown in collections' HTML views (after
+/// converting to UTC)
 pub(crate) static HTML_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT: &[FormatItem<'_>] =
     format_description!("[year]-[month]-[day] [hour]:[minute]:[second]Z");