Name: Graphics Interchange Format
Version: 87a
Description: The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a raster image format developed by Compuserve, primarily for use on the internet. A GIF file begins with a Header section and a Logical Screen Descriptor section. This is followed by one or more Image sections, and the file is terminated by a Trailer. GIF supports bit depths between 1 and 8 bits (i.e. up to 256 colours) and supports features such as interlacing and transparency. Images are always stored using lossless LZW compression.
Deprecated: false
MIMEType: image/gif
PUID: fmt/3
sameAs : PRONOM: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/3
Extension: gif
Magic: true
Container Magic: false
Binary Magic: true
Signature Priority Over:
Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27526733
Software that can read the format:
Alias: GIF (1987a)
Class: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/FileFormat
Type: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/RasterImage
SPARQL: http://the-fr.org/public/sparql/endpoint.php?query=describe+%3Chttp://the-fr.org/id/file-format/456%3E&output=&jsonp=&key=&show_inline=1