Author Name: Peter McCartney (Peter McCartney)
Original Redmine Issue: 1197, https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/1197
Original Date: 2003-10-31
Original Assignee: Matt Jones

Externally defined format is useless for automatic processing unless you have
some idea what to look for. This is a step backwards from FGDC which at least
provided enumerations for the common file formats at the time.