Classification of commentaries / study Bibles

The wiki says:

Bible commentaries vs Bible notes: Resources that
comment on every verse of the Bible should be tagged as commentaries,
those that comment briefly on some verses only, or which title
themselves “Study Bible” should be tagged bible-notes.

• Logos’ use of these types is primarily functional rather than
  descriptive. The Commentary type is used for many different kinds of
  resources that are indexed by Bible verse and that the user may want to
  appear in the Passage Guide. Bible Notes are used for the Notes from a
  Bible, as, for instance, most of our “Study Bible” resources. Further
  breakdown of the Commentary category would be somewhat arbitrary, so
  it’s better left to user discretion via tags.

The first paragraph was written by a user, the second paragraph by a Logos employee.

MJ. Smith said:

I was making collections of my commentaries into the groupings suggested by Morris Proctor. I've got it down to 26 resources tagged as type:"Bible commentary" in Logos - have weeded out some obvious errors. I then realized that with notes separated from the Bible text itself, I don't know the difference between a study Bible and a one volume Bible commentary. I'm curious as to what others see as the distinction.

One volume commentaries can very broadly in in their content.  I would not put Bible Knowledge Commentary or New Bible Commentary in the same category as a Study Bible, but Tyndale Concise commentary, for instance,  I could be comfortable grouping with Study Bibles.  So for me it really comes down to the content of one volume commentaries if I wanted to make a group of some sort between them and Study Bibles.

  At the moment I am thinking about better arranging my commentary materials, feeling at the moment I've broken them down too much and Passage Guide is less useful as a result.  Just trying to find a medium between functional classification and collections for use in passage guide. In addition to MP's list I am looking at Glynn's book on Google books for some further thoughts on this process.  The crux of his classification system can be found on pages 22-23. http://bit.ly/aa30dM and is a different approach to MP's.  MP's I think is great for the average user of Logos which is MP's target audience I would expect.  Glynn's is a little more scholarly.  I working finding a happy medium between the two approaches that works for me.  Utlimately I would like to probably use broader categories of collections (ie combinations of multiple user classification tags, but when I hover over a commentary in the passage guide I would see the tags and rating I have applied to the individual resource.

Logos  very much blurs the lines on Study Bibles with there being three different resource types for the ones I have in my library: Bible Notes, Bible Commentary and Monograph

This last classification of Monograph is particularly concerning and thankfully only 1 falls into that class and its not major one I use but this should be fixed all the same.   I think type bible notes would be more appropriate and descriptive across the board but I know others think they should all just be bible commentary.  Ultimately whatever the classification it should be consistent and that currently is not the case. If you look closely at that list a great example of this inconsistency is the Macarthur Study Bible, the NKJV version is bible notes and the NASB95 versions is bible commentary.  Its the same resource just adapted to a different base translation and yet it receives two different type classifications.

EDIT NOTE:  MP describes study bibles as mini bible handbooks.

Bible Reader's Companion which is treated as a commentary really falls more into this mini-hand book / study notes category.

Dave Hooton said:

reject many one volume Bible Commentaries; purely because of insufficient coverage eg. some with "summary", "outline", "handbook", "guide" or "concise" in their title.

I place "summary", "outline" & "thematic" to there own category in PG.   I have another one that is bible notes which gets  its own section because its really a chronological arrangement of the bible rather than pure notes.

If its the same one MJ is using the link can be found on the Help Page of MP Seminars...

This is the direct link to download it without going to the site:

http://www.mpseminars.com/images/images_A3010/Commentary-Collections.pdf