Vocabulary: MARC21-007: Level of compression of electronic resource
Concepts: lossless

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English	preferred label	lossless	Published
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English	definition	Lossless compression will allow an electronic resource to be compressed and decompressed with absolute fidelity each time. To be considered lossless, no informational loss may occur during this process.	Published
English	scope note	An example of a lossless compression scheme would be TIFF Group 4 compression employed on bitonal image files.	Published