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This glossary has been generated to serve the participating agencies as a standardized vocabulary for their deliberations and guidelines. The definitions are largely based on those in common use in the field. The glossary is a work in progress, and will be updated and expanded frequently. Suggestions are welcome.
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Suggestions?- Panorama image An image that displays a wider than normal horizon ...
- PCM See Pulse Code Modulation
- Peak signal-to-noise ratio The ratio between the maximum power of a signal an ...
- Persistent Uniform Resource Locator See PURL
- Photo montage See Mosaic image
- Photodiode A type of photodetector that forms the basic compo ...
- Photometer An instrument used to measure the intensity of lig ...
- Photometry Photometry is the science of measuring the intensi ...
- Photonics The technology involved with the generation, detec ...
- Photopic (general) Having sensitivity characteristic similar to the h ...
- Photopic sensitivity Photopic sensitivity refers to visual sensitivity ...
- Physical replica A physical copy of the original item, most often u ...
- Picture-referred See Image state
- Pixel An abbreviation of picture element, this term may ...
- Pixel interpolation An image processing operation that attempts to est ...
- Pixel misregistration The color-to-color spatial dislocation of otherwis ...
- Pixellation A term used to describe the an abrupt and unnatur ...
- Pixels per inch See PPI
- PPI PPI stands for pixels per inch, commonly used in d ...
- Precision The characteristic of measurement that relates to ...
- Preservation master file See Archival master file
- Preservation metadata See Metadata, preservation
- Printed halftone Most photographs, paintings, or similar pictorial ...
- Printing plate In traditional offset lithography printing, a piec ...
- Process metadata See Metadata, process
- Production master file Files produced by processing the content in one or ...
- ProPhoto RGB ProPhoto RGB is a large gamut color space develope ...
- Provenance metadata See Metadata, process
- Pulse code modulation Type of encoding used for audio bitstreams. Pulse ...
- PURL Acronym for Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. A ...
See also Signal-to-noise ratio
See also Photopic sensitivity; Mesopic sensitivity; Scotopic sensitivity
See also Photopic (general); Scotopic sensitivity; Mesotopic sensitivity
See also Virtual replica; Museum-quality facsimile or print; Copy negatives and transparencies; Interpositives, duplicate negatives and transparencies
See also Bit depth (image); Megapixel; Pixel interpolation; Pixel misregistration; Pixellation; PPI; Raster data
See also Pixel
See also Pixel
See also Distortion; Aliasing; Pixel
See also Pixel
See also Accuracy
See also Archival master file; Derivative file
See also Linear pulse code modulation