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>
+code</a> for the SOSI file format. 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
<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
+use an official MIME type and PRONOM code for SOSI files. In
+addition, anyone using SOSI files on Linux should be able to
+automatically recognise the format and web sites handing out SOSI
+files can begin providing a more specific MIME type. 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>