It does take a good bit of time to generate the first time. I just generated one on a bible I had not previously created. It took about 6 minutes.
I have a second gen Macbook Air. It seems to be done now and is instant for any new searches in the bible......Playing with it now
Once you have it built, it is very responsive.
That's what I am seeing......I am still trying hard to like it (find ways I would use it) I love these type of things but I can't see it's great use as of yet. How do you use it?
The most fun I've had with it is comparing the terminology of the Catechism of the Council of Trent to that of the current Catechism of the Catholic Church. ... or foundational documents of the Anglicans vs. the Lutherans ....
Once you have it built, it is very responsive. That's what I am seeing......I am still trying hard to like it (find ways I would use it) I love these type of things but I can't see it's great use as of yet. How do you use it?
To be honest I don't really use it much.
How did you go about doing this out of curiosity?
I ran two (or more) concordances and exported the results to Excel as the compare feature has yet to be added to Logos. In Excel I converted from counts to frequencies in order to account for the differences in length I did some manual adjustments of the groupings - just on the words I was apt to be interested in.. For a serious project I would feed the data into Access where I am more comfortable manipulating it.
I suspect from some of the posts of Phil Gons that a comparison tool is likely to be added to the concordance tool. I've seen no indication that we can expect the ability to manually manipulate the results, but I think users will eventually demand it.
As the designer, I'll let you in on a secret: The word Concordance is the least exciting. I mean, it's great if you do the sort of literature analysis where you count terminology (not common in biblical studies, but common in other literary disciplines).
Rather, the Concordance is a way to extract, collate, and browse data from a resource that is otherwise difficult to find. Counting unique words is otherwise difficult to do, though I expect not many people really need to do it.
The Reference concordance, on the other hand, is really exciting, because you can automatically generate a table of related material.
Let's say you know (or suspect) that the book of Acts has some connection with the historical accounts in Josephus. You can search Josephus for citations to Acts, or you can run a Reference Concordance on Josephus which will extract and collate all of the references to the Bible from the footnotes in your edition of Josephus, and you can browse through them. The collation by unique reference is particularly interesting here, because search results don't sort that way. Acts 16:13 is cited three times in the Whiston edition of Josephus, a fact you see readily in the Concordance but would need to spend a long time to suss out in search results.
Or you could come at it from the other direction: Run a reference concordance on a commentary on Acts and then browse through the Josephus references. (This is something that you can't currently do with search.)
This particular Concordance type is going to get more exciting in 6.5 because we're expanding it to include page number citations in other resources, bibliographic citations, as well as a few other types of reference/citation that currently aren't listed. Then it becomes a true "Works Cited" list -- again, the value is in the extraction and collation and the browse-ability.
We have other types of Concordance on the horizon beyond that for all sorts of data: extract, collate, browse.
Sounds exciting Eli. One of the first things that I noticed when I ran the concordance was that Lord was the most popular word followed by "not".
Why does God spend so much time telling us not to do stuff?
See my reply about not here: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/106482/737005.aspx#737005
Saw it shortly after posting. Looks promising. Anyway to speed up the concordance? Alternatively, put a popup telling the user the first run will take some time. That way they will know that it is working, working, working. [:D]
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