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7z file format is missing mime type #1065

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pwinckles opened this issue Feb 3, 2024 · 2 comments
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7z file format is missing mime type #1065

pwinckles opened this issue Feb 3, 2024 · 2 comments

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@pwinckles
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In the v116 sig file, the 7z format is defined as follows:

        <FileFormat ID="1271" Name="7Zip format" PUID="fmt/484">
            <InternalSignatureID>756</InternalSignatureID>
            <Extension>7z</Extension>
        </FileFormat>

The definition is missing the attribute MIMEType="application/x-7z-compressed".

@ross-spencer
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@pwinckles the mimetype for 7z doesn't seem to have been recorded in PRONOM yet:

This might be an issue for the PRONOM research repo. A number of folks suggest changes such as this for the underlying data there:

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@ross-spencer thanks! I opened digital-preservation/PRONOM_Research#46

@sparkhi sparkhi closed this as completed Apr 26, 2024
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