This request, in my opinion, does not belong here as it is a resource issues rather than a software issue. However, it is an issues that bears consideration from the users for a variety of other requests:
- the ability of users to add hyperlinks as they add community tags
- communication from Faithlife accurately setting linkage expectations
- prioritization of resources for tagging/linkage updates including assuring everything gets handled in a reasonable amount of time
The request:
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The SIL Exegetical Summaries Series summarizes and organizes the content from major Bible commentaries and dozens of lexicons, making it invaluable for research. Combined with the tagging and linking power of Logos Bible Software, this has the potential to be one of the most powerful research tools available.
Unfortunately, many of the links in these resources do not work properly. Sometimes the references are in Logos, but not linked. (For example, all of the Bible translations). Sometimes it takes several clicks to get to the resource you want. Other times it leads to bibliographical data, and not the resource in question. This is true for both the earlier works in the series as well as the newer ones that were released earlier this year.
If these tags were linked to the appropriate verse in the appropriate resource, research would become much more efficient, and the value of this product would increase exponentially.
See the following discussion for more details.
http://community.logos.com/forums/t/58457.aspx
A response:
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I suggest that everyone who has voted for this move their votes to the following suggestion:
https://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-5/suggestions/1427695-allow-users-to-add-hyperlinks
In short, the suggestion is to crowdsource the hyperlinking of all resources (Exegetical Summaries included) and allow users to add their own references and submit them to Logos for permanent additions.
From the referenced thread to illustrate the problem:
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I'm very disappointed to find out that this resource does not link to specific pages in its references to commentaries.
It only links to title pages.
Here I would have to say that Faithlife needs to be clearer in their catalog copy. Somewhere they need to document their actual tagging/linking standards. At the price we pay, we cannot expect them to look up the references that are not given in the text. If the text only refers to the volume, we should expect the link to only be to the volume. If the text provides a page or other location marker, that is what we should expect in the Logos link.
A forum post in which the problem is illustrated:
Logos' normal practice is to link to page numbers when the page number is in the original resource. It would be an enormous amount of work for someone to go through and tag everything. Part of the problem is that when Logos opens a link without a page number, it goes to the beginning of that resource. It would make more sense (at least in this case) to open the resource to the same reference that Exegetical Summaries is open to. That's what happens if I open a Bible from the library or command bar. If an override could be created so that also happened from exegetical summaries, no tagging would be needed.
But more of a problem is that many of the resources aren't linked at all, because Exegetical Summaries is a fairly old resource. Just looking at the Ephesians volume, it's missing links to all of the following volumes, which are all available in Logos:
- Alford, Henry. “Ephesians”. In vol 3 of The Greek Testament. 1874. Revised by Everett F. Harrison. Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.
- Barnes, Albert. Notes on the New Testament. Nd. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1972.
- Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Translated and adapted from the 5th ed., 1958 by William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich. 2d English ed. revised and augmented by F. Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
- Calvin, John. Calvin’s Commentaries, vol. 12 Nd. Reprint. Wilmington, Delaware: Associated Publishers and Authors, Nd.
- Candlish, James S. The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1901.
- Thompson, G. H. P. The Letters of Paul to the Ephesians to the Colossians and to Philemon. The Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
- Delitzsch, Franz. Biblical Commentary on the Psalms, vol. 2. Translated from the German 2nd edition by Francis Bolton. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch. Nd. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1959.
- Brown, Colin, ed. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. Translated, with additions and revisions, from Theologisches Begriffslexikon zum Neuen Testament, edited by Lothar Coenen, Erich Beyreuther, and Hans Bietenhard. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1975.
- Wood, A. Skevington. “Ephesians”. In vol. 11 of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, edited by Frank E. Gabelein. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1978.
- Salmond, S. D. F. “The Epistle to the Ephesians,” In vol. 3 of The Expositor’s Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. Nd. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1970.
- Field, Frederick. Notes on the Translation of the New Testament. Cambridge: University Press, 1899.
- Hodge, Charles. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians. 1856. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1950.
- Bromiley, Geoffrey W., ed. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 4 vols. Fully revised. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1979.
- Kidner, Derek. Psalms 1–72. An Introduction and Commentary on Books 1 and 2 of the Psalms. The Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity, 1973.
- Leupold, H. C. Exposition of the Psalms. Columbus, Ohio: Wartburg, 1959.
- Lightfoot, J. B. Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul. 1895. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1957.
- Maclaren, Alexander. “The Psalms”. In vol. 3 of The Expositor’s Bible, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. 1903. Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1982.
- Spurgeon, C. H. The Treasury of David. 6 vols. Nd. Reprint. London and Edinburgh: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1950.
- Stott, John R. W. God’s New Society: The Message of Ephesians. Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity, 1979.
- Foulkes, Francis. The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1956.
On a much more important note, is Logos ever going to re-release BAGD? You could make a lot of money from it, as so many resources link to it, it's worth having as a reference, even though it's been replaced.
Second issue:
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Another problem is that its lexical references are to the old BAGD instead of the new BDAG.
This is part of a bigger issue with resources having multiple editions. In general one wants the edition referenced, if possible, or else the most recent edition. This issue has come up several times in the forums.
On the issue of Bible text versions, the volume I tested worked well.
However I saw missing internal links not mention by the OP.
In short this is an issue for Faithlife to review regarding managing expectation, clear communication and a predictable update cycle.
