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Cultural Concepts
The remaining three guide sections to be discussed differ from the Bible Knowledge Base items proper in that they organize the content of the text rather than tagging elements of the text. The Cultural Concept (Ontology) guide follows a standard classification scheme while (Preaching) Theme and Topic are elements of Faithlife’s creation.
Prerequisite reading: Witthoff, David, Jessica Parks, and Sean Boisen. Lexham Cultural Ontology Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015.
Suggested reading: Human Relations Area Files | Cultural information for education and research (yale.edu) Note the use of related items Subjects Covered (OCM) | Human Relations Area Files (yale.edu)
From Verbum Help:[quote]
Cultural Concepts Section
This section displays cultural concepts associated with the search term, as listed in the Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary. Each concept name links to the Glossary, with a brief description.
Concepts may also display a breadcrumb showing where the particular concept fits in relation to a larger concepts. For example, the concept Agriculture displays the breadcrumb Abstract > Act > Activity > Food Processes > Food collection > Agriculture. Each concept in the breadcrumb is a link to a particular entry in the Glossary.
Click Search Library to search for resources in the Library that relate to the concept.
This section is included in the Passage Guide and can be added to an Exegetical Guide or Sermon Starter Guide.
See Also
• Lexham Cultural Ontology: Dataset Documentation[1]
Section heading bar
The Section heading bar menu includes “Refresh” which has been seen only in Biblical Events but omits “Save as Passage List” which was available in Biblical people, Biblical places, and Biblical things.
The Help preview is tailored to the section as is the click which opens Help.
Contents
An example of the content of the Cultural Concepts guide:
The data in the Cultural Concepts guide section includes for each concept:
- Cultural concept
- Description as given in Witthoff, David, ed. The Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014.
- Breadcrumb style list of the hierarchy down to the cultural concepts.
- A search function
Note that the cultural concepts are intended to be seen as a hierarchy with the user selecting higher or lower nodes as appropriate.
Interactions on the data
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Cultural concept name |
Mouse-over |
Preview popup of Factbook entry (1). |
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Opens Factbook page in a new panel (2) |
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Opens a limited Context Menu (3) |
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Drag-and-drop |
Opens Factbook page in a new panel in a pane of your choice. (2) |
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Cultural concept description |
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Breadcrumb representation of hierarchy |
Mouse-over |
Preview popup of Factbook entry (1). |
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Opens Factbook page in a new panel (2) |
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Opens a limited Context Menu (3) |
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Opens Factbook page in a new panel in a pane of your choice. (2) |
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Search library |
Mouse-over |
Popup description of search (4) |
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Initiates a basic search on all resources (5) |
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(1) Cultural concept name preview
(2) Cultural concept Factbook entry
(3) Cultural concept Context menu
(4) Search popup description
(5) Execute search
Note the range of resources that are coded (or not coded) for cultural concepts.
Search
There is no way to search for all cultural concepts in a particular passage. The searches provided by the Guide may be modified or entered manual as an inline search, a command line search, or a search panel search.
Supplemental materials
The Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary
The glossary lacks the heavy cross-referencing of its parent from Yale. However, it does provide the following data:
- Cultural concept name
- Definition of the cultural concept (documented elsewhere as description)
- A portion of the cultural concept hierarchy including the cultural concept
- Link to factbook entry
- Link to basic search against all resources for cultural concept (with required Section extension
Factbook
The factbook entry for a Cultural concept contains:
- Standard Factbook header
- Key article
- Media section
- Key passages
- Biblical senses
- Dictionaries
- Cultural concepts
- Journals
- Sermons
- Preaching resources
- Books from your library
- Bookstore
- See also
- Topics
- Guides (link)
- Workflows (link)
- Related
- Search
Note the inclusion of the breadcrumb hierarchy in the heading.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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