X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/a3006711ca11744c97f117215b57516691be34c7..0ecdb02a40200c6afdaa69867317396bb10f85bd:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index eee9b82385..3e1055f55f 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ 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> +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 @@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ 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 +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>