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Centralised repository for WARC usage specifications.
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WARC revision 1.1 (clarification): delete section 8 (registration of MIME media types application/warc and application/warc-fields) #33

Closed saraaubry closed 6 years ago

saraaubry commented 8 years ago

Declaration of MIME types are out of the scope of the standard. And application/warc and application/warc-fields are still not registered as official MIME types. ==> there should be an iipc discussion on how to move forward with this.

saraaubry commented 6 years ago

Included in WARC 1.1

wumpus commented 5 years ago

Is section 8 deleted from the 1.2 standard? In addition to these MIME types not being registered, I just noticed this inconsistency about whether the WARC-Type of warcinfo and metadata SHALL BE, MAY, or is recommended to be application/warc-fields (quoting from 1.1 standard)

 section 6.2 'warcinfo'
   The format of this descriptive record block may vary, though the use of the "application/warc-fields" content-type is recommended.
 section 6.6 'metadata'
   The "application/warc-fields" format may be used
 section 8
   The MIME type of warcinfo records, WARC metadata records, and potentially other records types in the future, shall be application/warc-fields.