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Graphics Interchange Format
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Abbreviation: GIF
Identifiers:
Type Id
SIS ID fGIF Copy ID to clipboardSIS ID copied
PRONOMUK National Archives fmt/4
LOCLibrary of Congress fdd000133
Wikidata Q27526739
Media type(s):
File extension(s): .gif
Format family: Raster.Lossless
Functional domains:
  • Image Source Language Data
Recommendations:
Centre Domain Level Comments
PORTULAN-CLARIN Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). acceptable
CLARIN.SI Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
EKUT Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
ZIM Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
UdS Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
ILC4CLARIN Image Source Language DataDigitized images of analogue sources of written language data for research purposes (e.g. facsimiles, scans of handwriting, photos of inscriptions). recommended
Description:

Please feel welcome to supply the description of this format file via GitHub: either as an issue report, or as a pull request after forking or browsing the code under the 'formats' branch.

Keywords: image format, raster graphics, image compression, lossless compression