The tech team at the EarthCube office (NSF program for cyberinfrastructure in EarthScience) is working on linking data with applications more effectively, and the approach we're taking is to register file formats with identifier strings that use standard MIME types as the base string, with mime parameters to more explicitly define the file content. The problem is that most MIME types like application/octet-stream, application/xml, text/csv, text/plain, and many others, don’t get you very far in terms of interoperability. The proposed solution is adding ‘type=’ (on application/ MIME types) or ‘application=’ (on other base MIME types) parameters onto MIME types.
related to #42.
Just raising this here for wider input... See https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/issues/149 for details.
The tech team at the EarthCube office (NSF program for cyberinfrastructure in EarthScience) is working on linking data with applications more effectively, and the approach we're taking is to register file formats with identifier strings that use standard MIME types as the base string, with mime parameters to more explicitly define the file content. The problem is that most MIME types like application/octet-stream, application/xml, text/csv, text/plain, and many others, don’t get you very far in terms of interoperability. The proposed solution is adding ‘type=’ (on application/ MIME types) or ‘application=’ (on other base MIME types) parameters onto MIME types.
related to #42.