Format
ESRI Shapefile Header Index
Summary
- Name
- ESRI Shapefile Header Index
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/321
- Format type
- GIS
- Description
- This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
aih - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
ESRI Shapefile Header Index
- Description
- Signature based on structured pattern observed in sample files, with first 5 bytes being constant,the next 35 used to identify index header column names. File always ends with 01
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
0000000001{35}2E{34}01- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V46
- Release date
- 8 February 2011
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Added format
ESRI Shapefile Header Index: Outline entry added. Ongoing DROID research work following request from Archaeology Data Service.
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Added signature
ESRI Shapefile Header Index: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.