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

[Piotr Bański]

Dear Thorsten,

What distinguishes these two types of TEI is ultimately of course the 
schemas, and that goes also for application/xml. So this might be seen 
as partially a cosmetic move, but if TEI is among the formats and 
frameworks endorsed by CLARIN, and if it has its own MIME type, then it 
might be good to turn the developers' attention to that fact. A TEI 
format resolver is becoming a possibility given the recent discussions 
on the use of the @source attribute in the TEI, and then an imaginable 
path on the input side of a webservice could become:

application/tei+xml --> TEI resolver --> precise handling of individual 
formats

Best regards,

   Piotr

On 16/06/16 16:43, Thorsten Trippel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> the problem is not sooo easy: TEI is "only" a framework and the IDS 
> TEI and the BBAW TEI differ. Hence for example a webservice relying on 
> the mime type may require the IDS flavor of TEI, another one the BBAW 
> flavor. I don't see how this can be expressed in terms of mimetypes 
> though, but we need to be able to specify this somewhere. It is almost 
> as good as saying "CMDI" without saying according to which profile. 
> Unless of course the tools really interpret all profiles or all TEI 
> flavors.
>
> So we need to be able to distinguish
> TEI-BBAW flavor XML
> and
> TEI-IDS flavor XML somehow
>
> (and TEI-HZSK flavor and probably some others)
>
> Sorry that I don't have a solution, but the tools need some form of 
> knowing of the format if they are not general enough.
>
> Cheers
>
> Thorsten
>
> Am 16.06.16 um 15:51 schrieb Dieter Van Uytvanck:
>> 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,
>>
>
>


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Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
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