Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

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.

May contain:

#PCDATA, emph, extptr, lb, ptr

May occur within:

bibref, editionstmt, titlepage, unittitle

Attributes:

Examples:

<eadheader audience="internal" langencoding="iso639-2b">
    <eadid>[...]</eadid>
    <filedesc>
        <titlestmt>[...]</titlestmt>
        <editionstmt>
            <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
            <p>This edition reflects substantial additions to the collection in 1994.</p>
        </editionstmt>
    </filedesc> . . .
</eadheader>