Help from Logos Developers: Using Logos for Bible Translation

Brent D. Smith

I need to reach someone in the development department to understand what coding is needed to create lexicons and reverse interlinear drafts in new languages. 
  

Who would I write to find out the process to use logos datasets in our bible translation work? 
 

How do we get an existing translation into the Logos system?   For example, what would we need to do to get a draft of the Themne bible searchable in the Logos system?

Can we use Logos coding so that when we find the term for, say, God, in a target language that it would auto-populate it everywhere it shows up in the bible translation?  
 
How can your coding be used to speed up the rendering of glosses and drafting by inserting terms into a new draft translation in every occurrence?


Who do I write to get Logos word, people, places, things list datasets?
Is it possible to receive every Hebrew and Greek word used in the 66 books of the bible in a list that includes the morphologies?
 
We would like to research how to use the power of Logos in our 104 language projects and 40 new languages that are about to start. 

JT (alabama24)

Welcome Brent! [:)]

I don't work for FL and can't answer your question except in a most generic way. I don't think you will be able to accomplish what you are trying to do unless FL has some department and program to assist translaters that I am unaware (which may be the case).

However, I do feel more comfortable answering two parts: 

How do we get an existing translation into the Logos system?

If you goal is simply to get the text into the system, that can be done with a personal book. That would not be a good method for what your long term goals are... the functionality would be limited, but you would have the text. 

We would like to research how to use the power of Logos in our 104 language projects and 40 new languages that are about to start. 

The things you ask about in your post are not quick and easy things. You will not have a fully featured bible in these languages ready for a class that is "about to start." 

Bible's take a long time to produce. If you want to get an idea, search for "Legacy Standard Bible" or "LSB" in the forums and see how long users were waiting for the translation to appear in Logos. It is <now> availble, but with essentially just the text. None of the original language material is attached to it yet.