Handbook for Biblical Interpretation not showing up in topics/factbook

Tate, W. Randolph. Handbook for Biblical Interpretation: An Essential Guide to Methods, Terms, and Concepts. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.

It is called a handbook, but really, it is a dictionary. It does not seem to show up in either the Topic Guide or the Factbook. This is a problem because the reason I got it was that it could be part of a collection of dictionaries and indeed produce entries whenever applicable. For those of us who need and have an extensive library, we're not about to open each book individually to check whether there is an entry there.

So, first of all, is this just me? Does this title show up in topics/factbook for anybody else?

If not, what can be done to make sure it does?

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MJ. Smith

Use the new community tags feature

Francis

Hi MJ,

I don't think this is the solution I am looking for unless I do not understand in what way you suggest I implement it. As I understand it, community tags allow one to tag individual entries manually. This may be fine in topical books that clearly are not dictionaries, but for those that are -- like the resource I mentioned above -- it seems a waste of time to do this manually when it should already be properly tagged as a dictionary by Logos.

One of the key advantages of Logos resources over print equivalents is that you don't need to remember you have this or that resource: it comes up in relevant searches or guides. I want to be able to take advantage of this resource in that way and not have to find relevant entries somewhat randomly (if I happen to think to check this resource or find it in broader searches) and over years of use tag every entry.

Rosie Perera

It sounds like this one has not yet been tagged for Logos Controlled Vocabulary (LCV), so that's why it is not showing up in Topic Guide or Factbook. I'm not sure how you can best indicate to Logos that you'd like this book bumped up in priority on their schedule of tagging for LCV, but a post in this (General) forum is not likely to make a difference. Perhaps a post in the Logos 6 forum would be more likely to be seen, or email data@faithlife.com?

MJ. Smith

Hi MJ,

I don't think this is the solution I am looking for unless I do not understand in what way you suggest I implement it.

I'd didn't say it was the solution you were looking for [:P] but it is the only solution under your control. We have no way of knowing when Logos will complete the tagging - Bob has given us only a hint of the prioritization scheme and without addressing the various types of tagging that are in the queue to be done. So doing it ourselves, preferably with others helping, is the only reliable solution.

Francis

Thanks, MJ, for the clarification, and Rosie, for the suggestion.

Considering that the resource is recent (2013) one would think that it should have been properly tagged out of the gate. I know that older resources were not already tagged when Logos moved from the Libronix 3 approach to topic searching to Logos 4 and Controlled Vocabulary, and so, that they are still, so to speak, catching up. But new resources should not come out until they are already properly tagged (unless of course, in this case, it fell through the cracks because it is called "handbook").

MJ. Smith

Logos has released a number of resources recently that are not fully tagged. The explanation given, I don't recall which thread, is that we would prefer to have the resource available "now" rather than waiting until the tagging was complete.

Rosie Perera

This has always been Logos's strategy: release sooner and more frequently, at the cost of buggier or less complete stuff, and then fix it up later. It's increasingly annoying to users the more stuff is incomplete (both features and resources) and the longer must be their internal to-do list of things to "fix up later." But that is deeply embedded in Logos's DNA (even though it now has a new name, Faithlife), so I don't expect it to ever change. I'm not going to defend the benefits of this strategy, but I know that Bob has passionately defended it in various places on the forums. He thinks it benefits users, not just the company, in the long run. He thinks they would waste lots of time getting everything nearly perfect before releasing it, when it's better to let users find the places that are bothering them and fix those only, instead of wasting time up front perfecting things that would never be noticed by users. They simply do not have enough resources to be almost perfect everywhere, even though in an ideal world that's what we'd want. So they shoot for 80%. I wish they'd shoot for 90% or even 95%, but that's just me. I don't have a company to run.

Francis

If books are not to be properly ready and they want to give early access to their contents, why not release them on Vyrso with possibility of upgrading to the Logos title when it comes out?