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Portable Network Graphics
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Abbreviation: PNG
Identifiers:
Type Id
SIS ID fPNG Copy ID to clipboardSIS ID copied
LOCLibrary of Congress fdd000153
Wikidata Q178051
Media type(s):
File extension(s): .png
Format family: Raster.Lossless
Functional domains:
  • Contextual Data
  • Image Source Language Data
Recommendations:
Centre Domain Level Comments
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
DANS 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 See more info from DANS
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
FIN-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). recommended
LAC Contextual DataImages (photos or drawings) or documents relevant to the communicative event or text but not part of the source language data. acceptable
MI 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
MPI-PL 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
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
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
Version ID: 9616381