How is this order determined?

Jonathan Bradley
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I was looking up my Reformed Sys Theo books in my Library on the desktop app, and this is the order they were in, by the number on the left column (1-4), but it doesn't match up with the volume numbers of the books…so, how is the order in the left column determined? Or am I just missing something?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,397
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    You mean the rank? IIRC Tf-idf  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf should fill you in — well, if they haven't changed it in the decades since I tracked it down.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,397
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    You mean the rank? IIRC Tf-idf  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf should fill you in — well, if they haven't changed it in the decades since I tracked it down.

    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."

  • Jonathan Bradley
    Jonathan Bradley Member Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭

    Thank you @MJ. Smith. That is way to technical for me to figure out, I was making sure I didn't mess something up in Logos.

    Pastor, Mt. Leonard Baptist Church, SBC

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member Posts: 906 ✭✭✭
    edited December 15
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1349099#Comment_1349099

    I don't believe the volume number affects the rank (unless you include it in your search), which simply tries to organize the search results according to their relevancy to the search query. In the case of the screenshot you provided, it's possible that all four resources were ranked identically. However, since each rank number is attributed to only one resource, each book must receive its own number. Therefore, the rank order that those books have been given is likely arbitrary.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,613 ✭✭✭
    edited December 15

    The question (on ranking) caused me to review my 'volume' sorting (by title). Quite often, I re-title to get the correct sort.

    But I was surprised a title sort recognizes roman numerals. A IX comes after a VIII, and so on. Looking at journals. That's interesting how they must be doing that.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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