A study on edition statement of the oriental traditional books

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In comparing with the role, scope, and description method of edition statement between monograph and old traditional books, There are some problems solving as follows : 1) Kind of issue offering information on variant imprint must be distinguished from edition merely identifying the newest thing among same materials in the edition area of old traditional books. 2) because of a rule that edition statement follow title statement according to ISBD, could not make a most of the characteristics of old traditional books. As a result of a n.0, pplication MARC format for solving above the problems, the followings have been identified. 1) Subfield in the 245tag can be made a distinction between kind of issue and edition with when describing edition statement of old traditional books. 2) As defining newly the Fixed-Length Data Elements of Marc format, not only basic index terms, such as author, title, etc., but also edition statement on variant kind of issue will be able to provide with restrict index terms.