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

[Piotr Bański]

Dear Dieter and All,

Having actually played a part in initiating the move towards setting 
this type up [1], I for one would be very happy to see this implemented 
and recommended by CLARIN. :-)

Best regards,

   Piotr

[1] https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=tei-l;11ddbe89.0911


On 16/06/16 15:51, Dieter Van Uytvanck wrote:
> Dear Standards Committee and CLARIN developers,
>
> During the test procedure of the Language Resource switchboard we
> discovered that there are various ways to refer to the mimetype of TEI
> files, some examples in the wild:
>
> http://hdl.handle.net/10932/00-01B8-B32C-BBDA-A601-0
> uses "text/xml" (IDS)
>
> http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-203C-0000-0029-FA2E-A
> uses "application/xml" (BBAW)
>
> Of course this is correct, but a bit underspecified.
>
> Now there is a IANA-approved
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml) RFC that
> recommends to use "application/tei+xml":
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6129
>
> Hence my proposal for a CLARIN recommendation to use
> "application/tei+xml" for TEI files. Would you agree? Or did I overlook
> something?
>
> best regards,


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