Bible search followup to the Experimental web search: enhanced Bible browser
MJ. Smith
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I would like to see a consolidated, consistent, simplified approach to the current Bible search functions independent of any move towards a more synonym friendly enhancement. My plan begins with the Bible Browser. Yes, I am deliberately ignoring the online/offline issues.
1. Eliminate the need for a separate interactive by:
-----Make the major facet name a selectable item. For facet driven interactives like Speaking to God, this essentially converts the Bible Browser into the Interactive.
-----add a ?-icon to the major facet name to link to the documentation for the facet.
2. Add or maintain functions for interactives with optional views
-----bubble charts (as in Miracles of the Bible) or other such visualization as appropriate
-----analysis view as in Bible and Morph searches where the label attributes are the column headers
3. Add ALL Bible related labels and clausal roles to the Bible browser
4. Make Old Testament and New Testament selectable units either at the header level or by adding them to the common divisions.
Note this solves the problem of the user needing to remember what labels are available and of finding the documentation which is spread out across multiple resources. It also, by the use of the analysis view table, allows the user to easily compare multiple occurrences of the label for understanding the data and, by use of the facets, allows the easy selection of specific examples.
1. Eliminate the need for a separate interactive by:
-----Make the major facet name a selectable item. For facet driven interactives like Speaking to God, this essentially converts the Bible Browser into the Interactive.
-----add a ?-icon to the major facet name to link to the documentation for the facet.
2. Add or maintain functions for interactives with optional views
-----bubble charts (as in Miracles of the Bible) or other such visualization as appropriate
-----analysis view as in Bible and Morph searches where the label attributes are the column headers
3. Add ALL Bible related labels and clausal roles to the Bible browser
4. Make Old Testament and New Testament selectable units either at the header level or by adding them to the common divisions.
Note this solves the problem of the user needing to remember what labels are available and of finding the documentation which is spread out across multiple resources. It also, by the use of the analysis view table, allows the user to easily compare multiple occurrences of the label for understanding the data and, by use of the facets, allows the easy selection of specific examples.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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a good idea.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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