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Peer reviewedBookstein, Abraham; Storer, James A. – Information Processing and Management, 1992
Introduces this issue, which contains papers from the 1991 Data Compression Conference, and defines data compression. The two primary functions of data compression are described, i.e., storage and communications; types of data using compression technology are discussed; compression methods are explained; and current areas of research are…
Descriptors: Coding, Computer Storage Devices, Conferences, Information Processing
McClure, Wanda L.; Hannah, Stan A. – Computers in Libraries, 1995
Discusses problems in using ASCII for data communications and computers and provides a historical perspective on the development of Unicode, a new universal encoding scheme. The future of Unicode is considered, implications for libraries are discussed, and a sidebar explains how computers store textual data. (LRW)
Descriptors: Coding, Computer Storage Devices, Data Conversion, Futures (of Society)
