Hi Aditya,
On May 17, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Aditya Aggarwal wrote:
> Thank you Quincey.
> In the meantime, just to give you an idea, what we have done for now is to
> use application/x-bag as the MIME, in the absence of an HDF5 MIME.
OK.
> But when the HDF5 MIME does become available we would do something like
> application/x-hdf;subtype=bag
> as BAG format uses HDF5 to provide the basic mechanism of data encapsulation
> and file I/O.
>
> Thus the MIME will not only benefit HDF5 users directly but for others as
> well who use HDF5 to create file formats and are looking to exchange data
> over the web.
I agree.
Cheers,
Quincey
>
> Aditya
> On 15/05/2012 3:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:17 -0500
>> From: Quincey Koziol <[email protected]>
>> To: HDF Users Discussion List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] MIME type for HDF 5
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>
>> Hi Aditya,
>> Unfortunately, I don't think there's any official MIME type for HDF5
>> currently. I've registered an issue for this though, and we'll put it into
>> our work queue.
>>
>> Quincey
>>
>> On May 3, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Aditya Aggarwal wrote:
>>
>>> > Any insight with request will be helpful. Thanks.
>>> >
>>> > Aditya
>>> > On 02/05/2012 10:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Today's Topics:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 1. Assertion fail on H5Dwrite - using hdf 1.6.5 (Ramakrishnan Iyer)
>>>> >> 2. MIME type for HDF 5 (Aditya Aggarwal)
>>>> >> 3. h5dump - dimensions of a dataset?? (runway88)
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Message: 2
>>>> >> Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 16:06:19 -0300
>>>> >> From: Aditya Aggarwal <[email protected]>
>>>> >> To: [email protected]
>>>> >> Subject: [Hdf-forum] MIME type for HDF 5
>>>> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I was looking for information if there are any specific mime types
>>>> >> defined for HDF5 formats with hdf extension, such as defined for HDF4
>>>> >> (application/x-hdf
>>>> >> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/format/HDF.html).
>>>> >> The goal here is to identify if there is such a mime type specified
>>>> >> which can then be used to define a mechanism to define MIME types for
>>>> >> files based on HDF5. For example, for a BAG (Bathymetry Attributed Grid
>>>> >> https://marinemetadata.org/references/bag) file the MIME can then be
>>>> >> defined as application/x-hdf;subtype=bag in line with IANA standards
>>>> >> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks
>>>> >> Aditya
>>>> >>
>>> >
>
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