Abstract: This paper expounds on the trend of development of editorial information on the basis of documental data and by means of analysis and prediction and discusses its future prospect from the angle of theory and practice. The paper points out that future development of editorial information mainly depends on such high- tech as internet, data bank and multimedium. In view of the gap between the development of editorial information of our country and that of the advanced countries, the paper proposes that the information source be reasonably exploited, editorial and publishing network and data bank be set up and the research on basic theory and applying technology be strengthened.

Key words: editorial information, information field, subject, internet, data bank