[Dev] [Teiweblicht] [Standards] proposal: using a common mime type for TEI files

[Piotr Bański]

Dear Dieter,

Thank you so much for this catch. Indeed, on the one hand it's RFC 6129, 
and on the other, it's the "Architecture..." spec (in the previously 
quoted fragment [1]), that call for application/ in all cases. I'll 
modify this now in the wiki.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#xml-media-types

Best regards,

   P.

On 11/07/16 17:58, Dieter Van Uytvanck wrote:
> On 08/07/16 17:42, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> I have summarized Thomas's proposal at
>> https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/MIME%20format%20variants
> Thank you Piotr!
>
> Great to see this discussion moving forward. Before I start editing the
> wiki, let me first check and mention a few points:
>
> - right now it states "text/tei+xml" as mimetype for TEI; shouldn't that
> be "application/tei+xml" ?
>
> - we have a CMDI component where we have gathered (at least a subset of)
> CLARIN-relevant mime types:
>
> https://catalog.clarin.eu/ds/ComponentRegistry#/?itemId=clarin.eu%3Acr1%3Ac_1271859438106&registrySpace=public
>
> It is not complete, but I will add it as a starting point to the trac
> (might take me a few days with the DH conference coming up)
>
> - I agree that the "format-variant=" is a necessary and elegant solution
> in case of e.g. the mimetype "application/tei+xml".
>
> - I am not sure about using this approach for general XML-based formats
> where no disambiguation on top of the mimetype is strictly necessary,
> since some form of mimeytype is already in use, (eg "text/tcf+xml", see
> https://vlo.clarin.eu/?q=text/tcf or "text/exb+xml", see
> https://vlo.clarin.eu/search?q=text/exb%2Bxml). We risk here to "invent"
> a new standard where some practice is already used in the wild.
>
> - Optional parameter(s) like "tokenized=0/1" were seen as problematic
> when discussing these with some of our developers - they can lead to
> arbitrary and unpredictable combinations. Maybe we can use something
> like "application/tei+xml;format-variant=dta-tokenized" instead? A major
> advantage of a finite list of format variants is that we can document
> every variant, eg with a link to an example file.
>
> best regards,


-- 
Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
R5 6-13
68-161 Mannheim, Germany