EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <edition> Edition

Description:

A version of the finding aid or other bibliographic entity. When used in the <editionstmt> subelement of the <eadheader> or in the <titlepage> subelement of <frontmatter>, the <edition> refers to the version of the finding aid. A new edition of a finding aid represents substantial additions or changes and should supersede previous online versions. When used in a Bibliographic Reference <bibref>, the <edition> element specifies the version of a published work.

The <edition> element is modeled on a header element found in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

May contain:

#PCDATA, emph, extptr, lb, ptr

May occur within:

bibref, editionstmt, titlepage

Attributes:

ALTRENDER	#IMPLIED, CDATA
AUDIENCE	#IMPLIED, external, internal
ENCODINGANALOG	#IMPLIED, CDATA
ID	#IMPLIED, ID

Examples:

SGML Open catalog, with a Formal Public Identifier:

<eadheader audience="internal" langencoding="ISO 639-2">
[other possible elements and text... ]
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>[...]</titlestmt>
<editionstmt>
<edition>This is the second edition of this inventory, reflecting
substantial recent additions to the records during 1997.</edition></editionstmt>
</filedesc>
[...]
</eadheader>

<eadheader audience="internal" langencoding="ISO 639-2">
[other possible elements and text... ]
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>[...]</titlestmt>
<editionstmt>
<edition encodinganalog="250$a">1st ed.</edition></editionstmt>
</filedesc>
[...]
</eadheader>

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