# Lossless Preservation

> The degree to which reducing values to a canonical form can discard distinctions the original preserved.

Record: `lex:lossless-preservation`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Contracts Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/contracts-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-lossless-preservation

## category

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)

## referenced-by

- [Canonicalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/canonicalization.md)