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Action Plan: Tagged Image File Format - DNG Encoding

Last Updated 2/5/2014

Description: Tagged Image File Format, or Tiff files, are some of the most common Raster Image Formats in use. Created by the Aldus Corperation which was later aquired by Adobe, Tiff's technical specifications have been released by Adobe. It was last updated in 1992, its current version is 6.0.

Codec:  DNG is a format for storing RAW camera image data. It is based on the TIFF/EP standard.

Software:  DNG is a RAW format and may not work with many common image viewers. The will typically open with Adobe Photoshop, Gimp 2 or other professional photo editing software options.

Long Term Preservation Plan:  DNG has become a common standard with many digital cameras. It is common, documented and open. There is no reason at present to consider migration to other formats.

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