[ACK] Resource bug exposes design problem: Orthodox service books

MJ. Smith

Yet again, a collection of liturgical books was released without the coding to appear in the Liturgy section of the Passage Guide. See https://www.logos.com/product/32813/hymns-liturgies-and-service-books-of-the-orthodox-church for details. I'm too discourage to check for other recent releases.

However, there are enough liturgical resources available now to expose some serious problems:

• The liturgy section does not respect user prioritization nor does if segregate the books into logical classes.
• It is time to make some distinctions such as: Jewish, Lutheran, Anglican and its relatives (Presbyterian, Methodist), Western Catholic, Eastern Orthodox/Byzantine Catholic, Oriental Orthodox/Oriental Catholic, Historic, Other (Moravian)
• It may be time to distinguish Primary ritual books vs. Liturgy of the Hours/Divine Office books
• Though needs to be given to either allowing the user to sequence the groups OR to allow multiple Liturgy sections with the liturgical stream as a settable option

At the very least, procedures need to be in place for Faithlife to release these resources with the necessary metadata (this is the umpteenth such error I have reported) and the number of resources available have outgrown the current Passage Guide structure.

 

JAL

I am grateful that MJ continues to pour forth regarding the need for a considered and comprehensive approach toward the development of liturgical resources. I remain hopeful that her wellspring of support will vitalize interest and demand for this.

I know that if Faithlife is able to tend to this need another remarkable set of tools will be the result.

Eli Evans (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/726649#Comment_726649

I forwarded this thread to Kyle to review the resource metadata issues and maybe comment here. I've put the suggestions for the Liturgy guide section onto the ideas board so they'll come around next time we update that section. Thanks!