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This request is at a minimum a project that is in progress. The request itself sounds like a faceted filter on the fields available to logos.com. What is available is a build on the fly search string filter on the metadata available in the library. I believe that if the current implementation is not satisfactory, this request needs a bit of reworking:
- defining the additional information needed to support the desirable selections
- specific information as to the anticipated interaction between a faceted approach and the current, more flexible but less user-friendly, filter "search" string approach.
My personal opinion is that there is additional metadata I would like to see added e.g.
- this is a part of a multipart Faithlife resource representing a single printed resource
- the default Bible translation used in the resource when stated in the front material
- information regarding tagging and indexing
- series as in serial resource separated from series as in a publisher collection
- subdivide some resource types to fit more closely their behavior within the system e.g. sermons
- add Library of Congress number
My list is not complete and probably not even representative. But I find logos.com so frustrating to find specific resources that I can't imagine using it as a model.
I wish to explain why I want Library of Congress rather than the Dewey Decimal system. I have a library > 300 volumes of cookbooks. Using a standard Librarian site to retrieve call numbers, I chose Dewey Decimal because the results were more complete. What I had not realized was how much variation there was between different libraries in assigning Dewey numbers ... the results are a mess ... different volumes of the same series showing up in gardening, technology ... the Library of Congress numbers are at least consistent.
Net result: I'd like to see someone provide as a comment an updated description of what is envisioned so that users can decide whether this is a piece of the large "help me manage my library" issue.
