# Lossless Preservation

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Deduplication](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/deduplication.md) and before [Security Checks](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/security-checks.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Canonicalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/canonicalization.md)
- [Canonicalization / Lossless Preservation](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/canonicalization-lossless-preservation.md)

## Linked from

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)