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

[Leif-Jöran Olsson]

Dieter et al, if we have an IANA approved media type for TEI in xml I
don't see any problem in actually promote and recommend it.

Leif-Jöran

Den 2016-06-16 kl. 15:51, skrev 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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