+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MIME_type__text_vnd_sosi__for_SOSI_map_data.html">MIME type "text/vnd.sosi" for SOSI map data</a></div>
+ <div class="date">20th May 2019</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>As part of my involvement in the work to
+<a href="https://github.com/arkivverket/noark5-tjenestegrensesnitt-standard">standardise
+a REST based API for Noark 5</a>, the Norwegian archiving standard, I
+spent some time the last few months to try to register a
+<a href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/">MIME type</a>
+and <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/">PRONOM
+code</a> for the SOSI. The background is that there is a set of
+formats approved for long term storage and archiving in Norway, and
+among these formats, SOSI is the only format missing a MIME type and
+PRONOM code.</p>
+
+<p>What is SOSI, you might ask? To quote Wikipedia: SOSI is short for
+Samordnet Opplegg for Stedfestet Informasjon (literally "Coordinated
+Approach for Spatial Information", but more commonly expanded in
+English to Systematic Organization of Spatial Information). It is a
+text based file format for geo-spatial vector information used in
+Norway. Information about the SOSI format can be found in English
+from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSI">Wikipedia</a>. The
+specification is available in Norwegian from
+<a href="https://www.kartverket.no/geodataarbeid/Standarder/SOSI/">the
+Norwegian mapping authority</a>. The SOSI standard, which originated
+in the beginning of ninety eighties, was the inspiration and formed the
+basis for the XML based
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language">Geography
+Markup Language</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I have so far written
+<a href="https://github.com/file/file/pull/67">a pattern matching
+rule</a> for the file(1) unix tool to recognize SOSI files, submitted
+a request to the PRONOM project to have a PRONOM ID assigned to the
+format (reference TNA1555078202S60), and today send a request to IANA
+to register the "text/vnd.sosi" MIME type for this format
+<a href="https://tools.iana.org/public-view/viewticket/1143144">[IANA
+#1143144]</a>. If all go well, in a few months, anyone implementing
+the Noark 5 Tjenestegrensesnitt API spesification should be able to
+use an official MIME type and PRONOM code for SOSI files.</p>
+
+<p>So far, SOSI files has been handed out from web sites using the
+"application/octet-stream" MIME type, which is just a nice way of
+stating "I do not know". Soon, we will know. :)</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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+</div>
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+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/noark5">noark5</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
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