tagging commentaries correctly

Larry Craig
Larry Craig Member Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
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I have noted a number of books lately that were titled commentaries, formatted like commentaries, but Logos tagged them as monographs.

I just had another one just downloaded now. F.B. Meyer, The Epistle to the Ephesians: A Devotional Commentary.

No, this is not formatted like typical commentaries, but every section is headed by a passage in Ephesians, just like you would expect a commentary on Ephesians to be formatted.

Commentaries get far more use than monographs. I usually order monographs anymore.

I don't know if Logos missed these or it was intentional. I would ask that Logos intentionally look harder before tagging commentaries as monographs.

thank you

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,480

    Is it an eBook? … much to my annoyance Patte, Daniel. Global Bible Commentary. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2004. is a monograph, I assume because it is an eBook/

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  • Larry Craig
    Larry Craig Member Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭

    No, but I don't see why that would make a difference. it's in the program and they have to tag it. This is advertised today on the dashboard.

  • Larry Craig
    Larry Craig Member Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭

    Oh, there are a number of commentaries from Abingdon that are tagged as monographs.

  • Kevin Houghtaling
    Kevin Houghtaling Member Posts: 111 ✭✭

    One thing I learned from Moe, Morris Proctor, was to ignore the Library of Congress designations that are somewhat arbitrary and develop a tag system based upon your knowledge of the resource. Although I adjust a tag or two, I have managed to tag every title with something meaningful, often with two or three tags as needed. This pays dividends since once you trust your tags you don't have to rethink collections on the fly. Just my opinion.

  • Larry Craig
    Larry Craig Member Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭

    I think you misunderstood what I wrote. Maybe I used the wrong word. There are personal tags, but I think Logos uses the same word for how they tag(?) their books. Commentaries are tagged by verses. Maybe the word is indexed. You look up a commentary on a passage, you get the place in the commentary where that passage is discussed. Look up a passage in a monograph, and you get every time that verse is used. Very different. sorry for the confusion.

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