MARC was registered a long time ago. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2220.html Some of the text is a bit dated and could stand some updating.
Patrick is right that an XML schema such as MODS or MARCXML would be text/xml. Rebecca Rebecca S. Guenther Senior Networking and Standards Specialist Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Washington, DC 20540 Washington, DC 20540-4402 (202) 707-5092 (voice) (202) 707-0115 (FAX) r...@loc.gov >>> Patrick Yott <patrick_y...@brown.edu> 02/04/09 10:59 AM >>> Not sure about the binary MARC, but all flavors of xml should be typed to either text/xml or application/xml, yes? patrick On 2/4/09 10:47 AM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > I am actually rather shocked that it seems that MARC-XML, MODS, > MARC21-binary, do not have registered Internet Content Types (aka MIME > types). > > Am I missing something, or is this really so? > > Anyone know what the process is for registering such? Anyone want to > help try to do that? I guess we'd probably have to talk to the standards > organizations for each of those types, rather than doing it independently? > > Jonathan