Wow! Searching for articles written by a particular author in Theological Journals

Mark Barnes
Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

Just wanted to say a big thank you for making this so easy!

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  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for pointing that out, Mark.

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  • Ray Timmermans
    Ray Timmermans Member Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Just wanted to say a big thank you for making this so easy!


    Didn't seem to work when I searched for Bultmann in TDNT.

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    TDNT was tagged a very long time ago, and hasn't been tagged for author. As far as I can see, only the journals and some dictionaries have been tagged with authors.

    You can see the fields each resource has from their own drop-down, or from their information panel.

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    Robert Pavich

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  • NetworkGeek
    NetworkGeek Member Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭


    You can see the fields each resource has from their own drop-down, or from their information panel.


    Mark, what drop down are you referring to? I know where the search fields are in the Information Panel for the resource...

    thanks!

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    Somethin' aint' a workin' for me!

    Check if that book has author listed as a Search Field in its Resource Information i

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298


    You can see the fields each resource has from their own drop-down, or from their information panel.


    Mark, what drop down are you referring to? I know where the search fields are in the Information Panel for the resource...

    I think he is referring to the resource's text box  -  but that would only indicate data types (if it exists!) and not fields.

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    Somethin' aint' a workin' for me!

    Check if that book has author listed as a Search Field in its Resource Information i

     

    Dave,

    thanks...author is not listed....in fact...whatever search field is available, then that's all you get on the drop down choice...that's a pretty good feature....

     

    BUT...what's up with Grace Theological journals????

     

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    BUT...what's up with Grace Theological journals????

    It's a Galaxie resource ....

    If you have it in L3 you might check that same info in its About This Resource

    Dave
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  • Mark Kulikovsky
    Mark Kulikovsky Member Posts: 62 ✭✭

    I'm not running 4.0c (currently running 4.0b) but I've had the problem of missing search fields in Galaxie journals a couple of times before in 4.0a. The only way I was able to fix it was to rebuild the index. Once that was done, all the search fields re-appeared. I've also had it where some of the search fields for a journal were present but one was missing (the 'heading' search field actually) until I did an index rebuild - then all the search fields were present. Incidentally my filename info and date are the same as yours.

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    BUT...what's up with Grace Theological journals????

    You've got a very old copy of Grace. Mine is timestamped 2010-01-26T14:01:06Z/

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭


    You can see the fields each resource has from their own drop-down, or from their information panel.


    Mark, what drop down are you referring to? I know where the search fields are in the Information Panel for the resource...

    I think he is referring to the resource's text box  -  but that would only indicate data types (if it exists!) and not fields.

    You can see the searchable fields either from the resources information panel (called "Search Fields"), or by selecting the resource in search, and clicking on the "All Text" drop-down. That drop-down intelligently displays only fields searchable with the currently selected resource.

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    As I said above, the author field is only relevant to resources that are collections of articles from different authors, and even most of those haven't been tagged. Some dictionaries and all the TLJ journals (not Semeia) have been tagged with authors. Dictionaries this works for includes:

    • ISBE
    • Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
    • New Bible Dictionary
    • IVP Dictionary of the OT (2 vols)

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    You've got a very old copy of Grace. Mine is timestamped 2010-01-26T14:01:06Z/

     

    I purchased and downloaded that from the Logos site 2 hours ago.....  [:(]

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    You've got a very old copy of Grace. Mine is timestamped 2010-01-26T14:01:06Z/

    I purchased and downloaded that from the Logos site 2 hours ago.....  Sad

    They are different resources if you look at the LLS: nos and filenames!

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    You can see the searchable fields either from the resources information panel (called "Search Fields"), or by selecting the resource in search, and clicking on the "All Text" drop-down. That drop-down intelligently displays only fields searchable with the currently selected resource.

    Ahhh!

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    They are different resources if you look at the LLS: nos and filenames!

     

    Dave,

    Well I hope that after I rebuild my index that the search fields come...if not....why in the world would I want something that's not search able by any field???

    Robert Pavich

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    Well I hope that after I rebuild my index that the search fields come...if not....why in the world would I want something that's not search able by any field???

    Haven't you already indexed everything when you updated to 4.0c?

    After setting Automatically Download Updates to NO,  I would move it to another folder and then use the scan command to get it back, which may prompt indexing of that resource.

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    You've got a very old copy of Grace. Mine is timestamped 2010-01-26T14:01:06Z/

    I purchased and downloaded that from the Logos site 2 hours ago.....  Sad

    They are different resources if you look at the LLS: nos and filenames!

    Oops, sorry for the bad info. Your timestamp matches mine. Are you sure they're fully indexed. If you only downloaded them two hours ago, they're probably not indexed yet, which would explain the missing fields.

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    Haven't you already indexed everything when you updated to 4.0c?

    After setting Automatically Download Updates to NO,  I would move it to another folder and then use the scan command to get it back, which may prompt indexing of that resource.

    Dave,

    No...it didn't re-index at 4.0c, but I'm doing a "rebuild index" now...after that if it doesn't help..then I'm going to take your advise...

     

    Robert Pavich

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    Good news!

    After a healthy index...Grace Theo Journals has all of the required fields!

     

    thanks everyone.

    Robert Pavich

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,298

    Good news!

    After a healthy index...Grace Theo Journals has all of the required fields!

    Bob, a few things still puzzle me:

    • L4 did not reindex after you updated to 4.0c?
    • did it start indexing after you downloaded Grace Theological Journals?

    EDIT: to clarify the first Q, you said you had not done a re-index with the update to 4.0c, but surely you received a 270 MB download of the reformatted interlinears?

    Dave
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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Just wanted to say a big thank you for making this so easy!

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    Wow! This is awesome. I'd noticed there were a bunch of checkboxes in that new dropdown menu but hadn't tried them out yet.

    Note that you really do have to be careful about what search fields are supported by the resources you're interested in. For example, I searched for author = Waltke in my Journals collection, and it found two reviews of books by him (but the reviews were by some other author). Then I search for the name of the author of one of those reviews and it didn't find that review. Then I pulled up the info panel for this journal (Review of Biblical Literature) and found these fields among those listed:


    author
                    Authors cited or discussed

    artauthor
                    The author of an article or review, rather than the author of a work under review.

    So to search for articles by Waltke, I'd need to use artauthor, not author.


    Journal of Hebrew Scriptures is the same way. Perhaps that is a standard that is used when tagging all resources that have article authors, but I'm not sure. Also, not all journals are tagged with author and/or artauthor in my library. Semeia is not so tagged, nor is Journal of Biblical Apologetics, for example.

  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    Some resources use the field "contributor" as well.

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  • Robert Pavich
    Robert Pavich Member Posts: 5,685 ✭✭✭

    Bob, a few things still puzzle me:

    • L4 did not reindex after you updated to 4.0c?
    • did it start indexing after you downloaded Grace Theological Journals?

    EDIT: to clarify the first Q, you said you had not done a re-index with the update to 4.0c, but surely you received a 270 MB download of the reformatted interlinears?

    Dave,

    I had downloaded the C update, and I thought it indexed...but a short one...and yes...I did get the interlinears in their new format.

     

    I downloaded the Grace journals yesterday and I had to force a "rebuild index" to get the fields to show. In fact, I had to do it about 3 times; it would start, then quit and it wasn't until I turned off "automatic updates" and stopped the Berkhof download effort that it would work, then it indexed for several hours...much longer than usual.

     

    Robert Pavich

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  • NetworkGeek
    NetworkGeek Member Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭

    Doh! I just realized this is a 4.0c change! I could not get the type of search to come up when I did Basic Search!  What forum am I in.....[*-)]

  • Mark Kulikovsky
    Mark Kulikovsky Member Posts: 62 ✭✭

    When I had the problem of missing search fields on some Galaxie journals in 4.0a, I had downloaded the latest journal files from Galaxie into a temporary directory and then did a scan of the directory, Logos 4 found them and installed them and then went into indexing to index the new journal resources, which completed 'successfully'. But the heading search field still did not appear. It was not until I did a complete re-index of the library that the missing search field appeared. Obviously, the partial indexing of the new journal files was not successful but I have no idea why, nor any idea why a full re-index resolved the problem.

    This situation happened to me twice, with different Galaxie journals. I downloaded the updated journals on different dates after Hampton Keathley posted updates at different times over the Christmas period to add the heading search fields. Both times, after indexing, the search fields were misisng until a complete re-index.

    It would seem that the problem I saw in 4.0a still exists in 4.0c

     

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